Speer created an elaborate garden complete with lawns, flower beds, shrubbery, and fruit trees. Speer has paid his penance for his part of the inner circle and had come to the realization of Germany's reality during WWII. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post Trevor-Roper who calls Speer an administrative genius whose basic instincts were peaceful and constructive does take Speer to task, however, for his failure to recognize the immorality of Hitler and Nazism, calling him "the real criminal of Nazi Germany":[161], For ten years he sat at the very centre of political power; his keen intelligence diagnosed the nature and observed the mutations of Nazi government and policy; he saw and despised the personalities around him; he heard their outrageous orders and understood their fantastic ambitions; but he did nothing. FRANKFURT Albert Speer Jr., an internationally prominent architect who sought throughout his life to distance himself from the dark legacy of his father, a member of Adolf . After his release on 1 October 1966, he used Federal Archive documents to rework the material into his autobiography. The idea for this myth came to him after he recalled the panic when car fumes came through an air ventilation system. [70], Speer realized that with six million workers drafted into the armed forces, there was a labor shortage in the war economy, and not enough workers for his factories. Albert was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. At the end of 1933, he contracted Paul Troost to renovate the entire building. Martin Kitchen, writing in Speer: Hitler's Architect, stated that much of the increase in Germany's arms production was actually due to systems instituted by Speer's predecessor (Fritz Todt) and furthermore that Speer was intimately involved in the "Final Solution". Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich ." Albert Einstein lived in the USA, so was not where the holocaust [22] Speer quickly became part of Hitler's inner circle; he was expected to call on him in the morning for a walk or chat, to provide consultation on architectural matters, and to discuss Hitler's ideas. I am sure that an oppressive feeling struck me as I drove past. After serving. Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. [83] His political rivals used the opportunity to undermine his authority and damage his reputation with Hitler. Speer was aided in shaping the works by Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler from the publishing house Ullstein. Minister for Armaments. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who became Minister of Armaments and War Production in World War II, died today at St. Mary's Hospital. [30] Nuremberg was the site of many official Nazi buildings. Feigned repentance at Nuremberg, saving his own neck. Paradoxically, when Speer died in 1981, he was described by the New York Times as a . "[115] Speer's attorney, Hans Flchsner, successfully contrasted Speer from other defendants[116] and portrayed him as an artist thrust into political life who had always remained a non-ideologue. For propaganda Hitler claimed during the topping-out ceremony on 2 August 1938, that he had ordered Speer to complete the new chancellery that year. Victoria married. Those who feigned illness, slacked off, sabotaged production or tried to escape were denied food or sent to concentration camps. [16][b] The same year, with stipends shrinking amid the Depression, Speer surrendered his position as Tessenow's assistant and moved to Mannheim, hoping to make a living as an architect. [91], On 14 April 1944, Speer lost control of Organisation Todt to his Deputy, Franz Xaver Dorsch. When the commission was completed, Speer returned to Mannheim and remained there as Hitler took office in January1933. [155] In addition to the myth that he was an apolitical technocrat, he claimed he did not have full knowledge of the Holocaust or the persecution of the Jews. This carried with it the rank of State Secretary in the Reich government and gave him extraordinary powers over the Berlin city government. [99][169], Speer maintained at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs that he had no direct knowledge of the Holocaust. [5] Wolters and longtime Speer secretary Annemarie Kempf, while not permitted direct communication with Speer in Spandau, did what they could to help his family and carry out the requests Speer put in letters to his wifethe only written communication he was officially allowed. The concrete cylinder, 14 metres (46ft) high, was used to measure ground subsidence as part of feasibility studies for a massive triumphal arch and other large structures planned within Hitler's post-war renewal project for the city of Berlin as the world capital Germania. . He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. [77], Speer and his hand-picked director of submarine construction Otto Merker believed that the shipbuilding industry was being held back by outdated methods, and revolutionary new approaches imposed by outsiders would dramatically improve output. [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. [46] Eventually, 75,000 Jews were displaced by these measures. Reporters and photographers crowded both the street outside Spandau and the lobby of the Hotel Berlin where Speer spent the night. In the letter, Speer says, "There is no doubtI was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed. [19] This work won Speer his first national post, as Nazi Party "Commissioner for the Artistic and Technical Presentation of Party Rallies and Demonstrations". All of the Germanic peoples will be included in it. Speer-Weber, Magarete, born 08-09-1905 in Heidelberg, lived there all her live, they also had a house near Hitler's Berghof on the Obersalzberg and was a girlfriend of Eva Braun (see Braun parents) and a regular visitor on the Berghof of Berchtesgaden. A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II. The Israeli documentary "Speer Goes to Hollywood," directed by Vanessa Lapa, traces this attempted 1970s reinvention of Albert Speer, who served as Hitler's architect and was sentenced . 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[14] The couple would have six children together, but Albert Speer grew increasingly distant from his family after 1933. - London, Anglia, 1981. szeptember 1.) This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name. [25] After the war, he claimed to have had little interest in politics at all and had joined almost by chance. The complicated architecture of Albert Speer, Jr. From being the son of a Nazi to becoming one of the world's foremost architects, this 82-year-old urban planner has been on top of the German planning world for more than half a century. He fabricated the additional details. [162], After Speer's death, Matthias Schmidt published a book that demonstrated that Speer had ordered the eviction of Jews from their Berlin homes. His mother died in 1952. [55] On 8 February 1942, Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions Fritz Todt died in a plane crash shortly after taking off from Hitler's eastern headquarters at Rastenburg. [148] In October 1973, he made his first trip to Britain, flying to London to be interviewed on the BBC Midweek programme. [43] The Schutzstaffel (SS) built two concentration camps in 1938 and used the inmates to quarry stone for its construction. [5], Another kind of criticism is the claim that Speer pretended that he was unaware of the extermination camps and presented the figure of a "good Nazi". The public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich and a major war criminal became a popular figure almost overnight. These centered on a three-mile-long grand boulevard running from north to south, which Speer called the Prachtstrasse, or Street of Magnificence;[35] he also referred to it as the "NorthSouth Axis". Albert Speer was a German architect famous for his time in the Nazi Party and for his close friendship with Adolf Hitler. The program while advanced proved to be an impediment to the war economy. [40] Speer was involved virtually from the beginning. Son of Albert Friedrich Speer and Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) Speer. Speer studied at the technical schools in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Berlin, and acquired an architectural license in 1927. Inside the Third Reich begins with an account of Speer's childhood, followed by a description of his role as Heinrich Tessenow's assistant at the Technical University of Berlin. [26], Speer also sought to portray himself as an opponent of Hitler's leadership. His claim was revealed to be false in a private correspondence written in 1971 and publicly disclosed in 2007. Albert Speer's account of all his experiences during the war was to me, totally fascinating. FC Bayern Munich opens a new sports complex with a youth academy planned by AS+P. [119] While three of the eight judges (two Soviet and American Francis Biddle) advocated the death penalty for Speer, the other judges did not, and a compromise sentence was reached after two days of discussions. [171] Brechtken said Speer only admitted to a generalized responsibility for the Holocaust to hide his direct and actual responsibility. In 1944, this became endemic; over half a million workers were arrested. [1] In 1944, Speer established a task force to increase production of fighter aircraft. It was only on the urgent advice of his publisher that he added a mention of seeing the ruins of the Central Synagogue in Berlin from his car. Yet each showed comparable increases in production despite not being under Speer's control. - Han var ikke sdan en morfar, man sad p skdet af, og . When asked by his Allied captors in 1945 to what extent German military strategy had been influenced by economic considerations, Albert Speer, Hitler's armaments minister, replied that in the case of OperationBarbarossathe need for oil was certainly a prime motive. Indeed, even during initial discussions of his plan to invade the Soviet Union, Hitler had stressed the absolute necessity of . 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