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Speer, Albert
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Speer, Albert (1905–81) German architect and
Nazi minister of armaments and war production. Speer joined the Nazi party in 1931, after hearing
Adolf Hitler speak, and soon became Hitler's personal architect. He conceived a grandiose project for rebuilding Berlin, which never came to fruition. In 1942 he was named minister of armaments and munitions; a year later the position was extended to cover war production. In this capacity Speer headed a system of slave labor, drawn largely from the concentration camps, that produced war materiel for Germany during
World War II. Speer confessed his guilt at the postwar
Nuremberg Trials and served a twenty-year prison sentence.
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Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 10/30/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Nuremberg, a British officer handed Albert Speer a copy of his indictment for crimes...Speer knew about the Holocaust. In Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (757 pages...admits upfront, she grew to like Albert Speer. Before he died in 1981, it wasn...
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Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 2/23/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...in the first line of this impressive book, says of Albert Speer: he was a man "I knew well and grew to like." That...Dorian Gray's portrait, reveal its grotesqueness. Albert Speer was Hitler's architect. Later he served as minister...
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Unable to Resist the Fuhrer: Architect Albert Speer says he lost his
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 10/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to Resist the Fuhrer: Architect Albert Speer says he lost his. equilibrium...to do in 1938 was precisely what Albert Speer, a young German architect, was...unearths in her monumental study, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, which...
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Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/23/1995; 700+ words
; ALBERT SPEER: HIS BATTLE WITH TRUTH. By Gitta Sereny...Hitler was innocent of the Holocaust, Albert Speer wrote Ms Sereny a letter of vigorous...connecting theme, her need to understand Albert Speer, she hangs a general reconstruction...
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Albert Speer: the good Nazi?
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Albert Speer was Adolf Hitler's intimate and trusted...power of the Nazi party. Inventing for Speer the post of General Inspector of Buildings...Minister of Armaments in February 1942, Speer revealed outstanding managerial skills...
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A Woman's Search for the Soul of Albert Speer
Newspaper article from: Forward; 9/29/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Woman's Search for the Soul of Albert Speer. With those words, Gitta Sereny...Indeed it isn't. Her book, "Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth," is...his charm." In Europe, where "Albert Speer" was first released, the reviews...
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The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer.
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/10/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Nazi: The Life & Lies of Albert Speer, by Dan van der Vat (Houghton...THIS is a good account, both of Albert Speer's life and work with Hitler...somewhat different forms) later. Albert Speer was accepted as a member of the...
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Did Hitler's Architect Know the Plan? A Closer Look at Albert Speer's
Newspaper article from: Forward; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Architect Know the Plan? A Closer Look at Albert Speer's. Role in Third Reich Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth By Gitta Sereny Alfred A. Knopf 757 pages, $35. Soon after Albert Speer began serving a 20-year sentence for war...
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Becoming a different man: inside Albert Speer. (Nazi Party member)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/8/1996; ; 700+ words
; ALBERT SPEER, the Nazi architect and minister of armaments, was...prison. At the end of a worship service in Spandau, Speer asked to speak with chaplain Georges Casalis. Before Speer could speak Casalis told Speer he considered him more...
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The Truth About Albert Speer
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 4/9/1996; 700+ words
; ...Paul Francuch (VOA-Chicago) Albert Speer -- Hitler's "architect" and...guilt for his enormous crimes. But Speer's stated knowledge of what murderous...journalist Gitta Sereny in her book "Albert Speer--His Battle with Truth," published...
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Albert Speer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Albert Speer Albert Speer (1905-1081) may have known of the atrocities committed in Germany during the Nazi era, but claimed he did not. He insisted that he was only "following orders" and had no knowledge of the details. Speer received...
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Speer, Albert
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Speer, Albert (1905–81),German architect...armaments and munitions from 1942 to 1945. Speer was an early admirer of Hitler but did...served. Bibliography Schmidt, M. , Albert Speer: The End Of A Myth (New York, 1984...
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Speer Plan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Speer Plan. In February 1942 Hitler appointed Albert Speer , his chief architect, to the post of minister for armaments...great increase in the output of finished weapons. Under Speer's administration the German war economy expanded military...
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Todt Organization
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...accident; thereafter his successor, Albert Speer , maintained the OT as his predecessor had run it. Under Speer it reached its maximum size. From...itself was broken up and banned. Speer, its last head, was convicted at...
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Todt, Fritz
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...After he was killed in an air-crash he was succeeded by Albert Speer . Bibliography P. Adam (1992); Council of Europe (1995); Jaskot (2000); F. Seidler (1986); Speer (1970, 1976, 1981); Spotts (2002); Stockhorst...
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