For a treatise on this aspect of the war including Speer's involvement see: Randall, Hansen, Last edited on 17 February 2023, at 08:56, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions, "Trials of the War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume II: The Milch Case", "Wartime reports debunk Speer as the good Nazi", "Letter proves Speer knew of Holocaust plan", "Historiker ber Albert Speer: "Er tat alles fr den Endsieg", "Rechtfertigung und Entlastung. [93] He opposed the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944. Russia in the battle for Stalingrad. In 1942, he was named Minister of Armaments and Munitions, assuming significant responsibility for the German war economy. Rereading Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich". [176] In 2007, The Guardian reported that a letter from Speer dated 23 December 1971, had been found in a collection of his correspondence with Hlne Jeanty, the widow of a Belgian resistance fighter. Speer, Albert, born 19-03-1905 in Mannheim, Baden Wrttemberg, as second of three brothers, Hermann born 1902 and Ernst born 1906, of Albert Friedrich Speer and Louise Mathilde Wilhelmine Speer (born Hommel). albert speers younger brother ernst was killed at Stalingrad A lbert Speer was born in 1905 in Mannheim to an upper-middle-class family that had benefited from Germany's meteoric economic growth. [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". One thing that happened in early 1840 of Victoria time was that From 1939 on, Speer's Department used the Nuremberg Laws to evict Jewish tenants of non-Jewish landlords in Berlin, to make way for non-Jewish tenants displaced by redevelopment or bombing. [123] Wolters raised a total of DM158,000 for Speer over the final seventeen years of his sentence. He goes on to say that at the Nuremberg Trial he stated he "had to share the total responsibility for all that had happened", and that he "was inescapably contaminated morally". "[16] The historian Magnus Brechtken, discussing Speer, said he did not give anti-Jewish public speeches and that his anti-Semitism can best be understood through his actionswhich were anti-Semitic. "[4] His brothers, Ernst and Hermann, bullied him throughout his childhood. If Speer, who had been so close to Hitler, had not known the full extent of the crimes of the Nazi regime and had just been "following orders", then they could tell themselves and others they too had done the same. In response, Hitler appointed Fritz Sauckel as a "manpower dictator" to obtain new workers. Secured early release from prison, became a media celebrity and successfully cultivated the "clean Speer" myth. Speer did not act on the request until mid-January 1943. [118] On 1 October 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. FC Bayern Munich opens a new sports complex with a youth academy planned by AS+P. Instead, he issued the "Nero Decree" on 19 March, which called for the destruction of all infrastructure as the army retreated. [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. Albert Speer was the Nazi Party's chief architect, a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and the brains behind the Nazi military production machine. [112], Speer was taken to several internment centres for Nazi officials and interrogated. Post Der er bare lige den hage ved Moritz Schramms morfar, at han var den kendte topnazist Albert Speer fra Hitlers inderkreds, og at han i dag anses for at vre en af Anden Verdenskrigs helt store forbrydere. Like many of those in power in the Third Reich, he was not an ideologue, "nor was he anything more than an instinctive anti-Semite. [177], The armaments "miracle" was a myth; Speer had used statistical manipulation to support his claims. [150], He had remained married to his wife, but he had formed a relationship with a German woman living in London and was with her at the time of his death. [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. 4.10 avg rating 13,205 ratings published 1969 86 editions. [29] Speer modified Werner March's design for the Olympic Stadium being built for the 1936 Summer Olympics. In September 1945, he was told that he would be tried for war crimes, and several days later, he was moved to Nuremberg and incarcerated there. Neither the organizers nor Rudolf Hess were willing to decide whether to approve the plans, and Hess sent Speer to Hitler's Munich apartment to seek his approval. See answer (1) Copy. He assumed his German readers would not be so gullible and told them the Nazi Party offered a "new mission". But the children-my two brothers and I-had to use the back stairs. I presumably had a sense of somber events. [131], Speer's supporters maintained calls for his release. Speer's own staff described the conditions there as "hell". [15] Instead, he revised his Spandau writings into two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich (in German, Erinnerungen, or Reminiscences[140]) and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. bio je arhitekt i ministar naoruanja u nacistikoj Njemakoj. Ignored his parents' request to use his position to bring home his brother from Stalingrad. I recommend this book without reservations. Albert Speer was a close confidant of Hitler, and the Third Reich's most celebrated architect. [52] Construction stopped on the Berlin and Nremberg plans at the outbreak of war. [11] As such, Speer taught some of his classes while continuing his own postgraduate studies. [87], The Fighter Staff committee was instrumental in bringing about the increased exploitation of slave labor in the war economy. - Han var ikke sdan en morfar, man sad p skdet af, og . [174], Speer did not deny being present at the Posen speeches to Nazi leaders at a conference in Posen (Pozna) on 6 October 1943, but claimed to have left the auditorium before Himmler said during his speech: "The grave decision had to be taken to cause this people to vanish from the earth",[175] and later, "The Jews must be exterminated". 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Speer II is more than an urban planner. 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. [9] In 1925, he transferred again, this time to the Technical University of Berlin where he studied under Heinrich Tessenow, whom Speer greatly admired. Speer was aided in shaping the works by Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler from the publishing house Ullstein. [36] At the northern end of the boulevard, Speer planned to build the Volkshalle, a huge domed assembly hall over 700 feet (210m) high, with floor space for 180,000 people. Air attacks on the transport network were particularly effective, as they cut the main centres of production off from essential coal supplies. The journalist described an invented scenario in which Speer had refused Hitler's orders and Hitler had left with tears in his eyes. [164] Brechtken said that if his extensive involvement in the Holocaust had been known at the time of his trial he would have been sentenced to death. Study now. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the benefit of the German war effort. [32], On 30 January 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital. Until 2 September 1943 the position's official name was Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. This formed a key element of the myths Speer encouraged. There's a small road going to the right. It was used for Nazi propaganda rallies and can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will. I'd like to know more about his life; all I know is that he was inside Stalingrad's. [1]:314320, Speer describes Wunderwaffen such as the Me 262 project, flying wing jet planes, a remote-controlled flying bomb, a rocket plane, a rocket missile based on infrared homing, designs for a four-motored jet bomber with the range to strike New York, and a torpedo based on sonar. This is followed by an epilogue dealing with the end of the war in Europe and the resulting Nuremberg trials, in which Speer was sentenced to a 20-year prison term for his actions during the war. Hitler's cabinet was dismayed at his tactics, but, regardless, he was able to accumulate new responsibilities and more power. [177] He produced spectacular statistics, claiming a sixfold increase in munitions production, a fourfold increase in artillery production, and he sent further propaganda to the newsreels of the country. Reporters and photographers crowded both the street outside Spandau and the lobby of the Hotel Berlin where Speer spent the night. 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 . Speer made no mention of it in the first draft of Inside the Third Reich. [167] Brechtken wrote that his most brazen lie was fabricated during an interview with a French journalist in 1952. [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. [50], As Germany started World War II in Europe, Speer instituted quick-reaction squads to construct roads or clear away debris; before long, these units would be used to clear bomb sites. The building was able to hold 340,000 people. [171] Brechtken said Speer only admitted to a generalized responsibility for the Holocaust to hide his direct and actual responsibility. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". [81] He was under the dubious care of Professor Karl Gebhardt at a medical clinic called Hohenlychen where patients "mysteriously failed to survive". Finally, in the summer of 1943, Speer released the 1200 metric tons of uranium stock for use in solid-core ammunition. [18], The organizers of the 1933 Nuremberg Rally asked Speer to submit designs for the rally, bringing him into contact with Hitler for the first time. [1]:488498,569, Speer's involvement with concentration camp prisoners as a work force came about when Hitler agreed to Himmler's proposal they be used for the secret V-2 project. The Fhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpetgnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped concepts endowed with an ineffable personal magic. The existing Berlin railroad termini were to be dismantled, and two large new stations built. Stalingrad was a classic example where he refused to provide the equipment necessary to supply his army on the Eastern front during the terrible winter of 1941. After his release on 1 October 1966, he used Federal Archive documents to rework the material into his autobiography. When you take it you'll get to an open field where you can see the Speer houses. [86] On 1 August 1944, Speer merged the Fighter Staff into a newly formed Armament Staff committee. Of the 60,000 people who ended up at the camp 20,000 died, due to the appalling conditions. Efforts were made and a search of Ernst's unit ended in failure. The relationship will always amaze. Four years into their relationship, in September 1981, Speer died. Werner Heisenberg told Speer "the scientific solution had already been found and that theoretically nothing stood in the way of building such a bomb." I am sure that an oppressive feeling struck me as I drove past. He also cites the use of the V-2 as a terror weapon, rather than continued development of the ground-to-air defensive Waterfall rocket. Many more buildings were planned. In the summer of 1942 Paulus advanced toward Stalingrad with 250,000 men, 500 tanks, 7,000 guns and mortars, and 25,000 horses. [54], In 1941, Speer was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 2 (Berlin-West). In June 1936 he charged a personal honorarium of 30,000 Reichsmark and estimated the chancellery would be completed within three to four years. [21] As Chancellor, Hitler had a residence in the building and came by every day to be briefed by Speer and the building supervisor on the progress of the renovations. This ignored military realities, as the German armed forces were unable to match the Allies' firepower and were facing total defeat. He met Hitler and toured the damaged Chancellery before leaving Berlin to return to Hamburg. He had become one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. He fabricated the additional details. According to Speer's daughter Hilde Schramm, "One by one my sister and brothers gave up. It was for the maltreatment of these people, that Speer was principally convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. For the television film based on the book, see, :55,71,7879,83,105,115116,138,188,651,674,696, Sarah Word from the British film magazine ", Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inside_the_Third_Reich&oldid=1132240858, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 23:15. Albert Speer (Mannheim, Nmetorszg, 1905. mrcius 19. 2. Albert Speer, (born March 19, 1905, Mannheim, Baden, Germanydied September 1, 1981, London, England), German architect who was Adolf Hitler's chief architect (1933-45) and minister for armaments and war production (1942-45). Included in the building works was material to build gas chambers, crematoria and morgues. Among those who pledged support for his sentence to be commuted were Charles de Gaulle and US diplomat George Wildman Ball. [53] Speer's offices undertook building work for each branch of the military, and for the SS, using slave labor. This article is about the book. He studied under Bestelmeyer, Billing, and Tessenow, and rose to prominence on the death of Troost, becoming Adolf Hitler's (1889-1945) friend, confidant, and architect from 1934.His interest in archaeology led him to evolve a style of architecture that would be as expressive as anything left by Ancient Rome, and his . [49] Martin Kitchen described Speer's often repeated line that he knew nothing of the "dreadful things" as hollowbecause not only was he fully aware of the fate of the Jews he was actively participating in their persecution. In her renowned biography, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, she describes her friend Schramm as "maybe the most moral person I have ever met". [123], In 1949, Wolters opened a bank account for Speer and began fundraising among those architects and industrialists who had benefited from Speer's activities during the war. Germany's armaments production had already begun to result in increases under his predecessor, Todt. [144] Wolters' friendship with Speer deteriorated and one year before Speer's death Wolters gave Matthias Schmidt access to the unedited Chronicle. [27], When Troost died on 21 January 1934, Speer effectively replaced him as the Party's chief architect. I was searching for information about Ernst (?) By the autumn of 1942 however, the estimated period for developing a weapon had increased to three to four years, much too long to affect the war. Speer believed his greatest work, the one that would truly stand the test of time was the Zeppelinfeld in Nrnberg, which held up to 340,000 people, and the Cathedral of Lights he orchestrated for nighttime Nazi rallies with 130 anti-aircraft searchlights placed around it. [7], Speer began his architectural studies at the University of Karlsruhe instead of a more highly acclaimed institution because the hyperinflation crisis of 1923 limited his parents' income. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ p r /; German: [pe] (); 19 March 1905 - 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.. An architect by training, Speer joined the . [83] His political rivals used the opportunity to undermine his authority and damage his reputation with Hitler. She was a kind and simple lady, living for her children. [90] By this time, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories. While dozens of submarines were built, few ever entered service. 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". He was more forthright in an interview with William Hamsher in which he said he joined the party in order to save "Germany from Communism". [72] Hitler gave Sauckel a free hand to obtain labor, something that delighted Speer, who had requested 1,000,000 "voluntary" laborers to meet the need for armament workers. [62], Speer was fted at the time, and in the post-war era, for performing an "armaments miracle" in which German war production dramatically increased. The cylinder is now a protected landmark and is open to the public. [30] Nuremberg was the site of many official Nazi buildings. happened. Gring was reluctant to grant this. He set about extending his power and influence with unexpected ambition. Albert Speer ( 19. bezna 1905 Mannheim - 1. z 1981 Londn ), celm jmnem Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, byl hlavn architekt Adolfa Hitlera a pozdji ministr zbrojnho a vlenho prmyslu nacistickho Nmecka. Albert Speer, nemki arhitekt in politik, * 19. marec 1905, Mannheim, 1. september 1981, London, Zdrueno kraljestvo . [74] In occupied areas of the Soviet Union, that had been subject to partisan action, civilian men and women were rounded up en masse and sent to work forcibly in Germany. [149] In the same year, he appeared on the television programme The World at War. [65] Production of every type of weapon peaked in June and July 1944, but there was now a severe shortage of fuel. [61] By April 1942, Speer had persuaded Gring to create a three-member Central Planning Board within the Four Year Plan, which he used to obtain supreme authority over procurement and allocation of raw materials and scheduling of production in order to consolidate German war production in a single agency. [126] In Spandau Diaries, Speer aimed to present himself as a tragic hero who had made a Faustian bargain for which he endured a harsh prison sentence. He lost Hitler's unconditional support and began to lose power. [98] Nevertheless, Speer believed that Germany should continue the war for as long as possible with the goal of winning better conditions from the Allies than the unconditional surrender they insisted upon. Inside the Third Reich (German: Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. He agreed to expand Auschwitz and some other camps, allocating 13.7 million Reichsmarks for the work to be carried out. [citation needed], At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his use of prisoners in the armaments factories while Minister of Armaments. 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 . Entrance to Spandau Prison, 1951. Hello. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [122] Speer's parents died while he was incarcerated. Speer's Heidelberg school offered rugby football, unusual for Germany, skiing, and Speer was a participant. He later published a work about Himmler and the SS which has been published in English as The Slave State: Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy or Infiltration: How Heinrich Himmler Schemed to Build an SS Industrial Empire (in German, Der Sklavenstaat - Meine Auseinandersetzung mit der SS). He had claimed that he was unaware of Nazi extermination plans, and the Allies had no proof that he was aware. [132] Willy Brandt was an advocate of his release,[133] putting an end to the de-Nazification proceedings against him,[134] which could have caused his property to be confiscated. [105] Speer ended them, though the army continued to blow up bridges. Mr. Speer had been taken to the . [120], On 18 July 1947, Speer was transferred to Spandau Prison in Berlin to serve his prison term. Today: Still there. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. The Soviet Union, having demanded a death sentence at trial, was unwilling to entertain a reduced sentence. by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post by. Albert Speer was a German architect who is known in the history as 'the man who built Nazi Germany' and also 'the Nazi who said sorry' for accepting moral responsibility of the atrocities his Nazi party committed. [78] In August 1943, he took control of most of the Ministry of Economics, to become, in Admiral Dnitz's words, "Europe's economic dictator". August 1, 2017. [91], On 14 April 1944, Speer lost control of Organisation Todt to his Deputy, Franz Xaver Dorsch. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ( Mannheim, 19. oujka 1905. His mother died in 1952. On 20 July 1942, Speer was enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of. [148] In October 1973, he made his first trip to Britain, flying to London to be interviewed on the BBC Midweek programme. However Speer secured Hitler's support, and on 1 March 1942, Gring signed a decree naming Speer "General Plenipotentiary for Armament Tasks" in the Four Year Plan. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. [43] The building itself was hailed by Hitler as the "crowning glory of the greater German political empire". [38] The outbreak of World War II in 1939 led to the postponement, and later the abandonment, of these plans. Ernst Speer. This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. A speech by Albert Speer (there is an account of this speech in Albert Speer, Erinnerungen [Berlin, 1969], p. 325) was followed by speeches of his deputies: Willy Schliecker, the expert on American rearmament; Walther Rohland, the head of Panzer production; Karl Frydag, who was in charge of aircraft building; and Otto Merker, who was . House Albert Speer (4) Location: Take the road in front of the Gutshof back uphill to the Berghof. During the winter of 194142, in the light of Germany's disastrous defeat in the Battle of Moscow, the German leadership including Friedrich Fromm, Georg Thomas and Fritz Todt had come to the conclusion that the war could not be won. Hitler appointed Speer, whose work for Goebbels had impressed him, to manage the building site for Troost. In 1918, moved to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany. For early access to our videos, discounted merch and many other exclusive perks please support us as a Patron or Member.Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/the. This led to a significant German Army failure at the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major turning point on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Red Army. The task force was established by 1 March 1944, orders of Speer, with support from Erhard Milch of the Reich Aviation Ministry. His sentence of twenty years amounted to 7,305 days, which only allotted one and a half days per book. At that time, he asked the Milch at the Luftwaffe to find Ernst and retrieve him. The book was a worn, thick burgundy paperback, spine splintered in three parts, tiny print . "[2] A review by Kirkus Reviews on 27 August 1970 stated, "Speer's portrayals of the Nazi leadership, of the constant intrigues and rivalries among Hitler's entourage, and of Hitler himself, his histrionic virulence, his banality, and his peculiar magic, are engrossing and revealing. by punktlich02 29 Oct 2009, 11:35, Return to The Dieter Zinke Axis Biographical Research Section. William. Albert Speer Jr. was born on July 29, 1934, one year after Hitler had consolidated power in Germany. "[4] Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion. He was credited with a dramatic increase in the shipment of arms that was widely reported as keeping Germany in the war. 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