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In the News (Sun 22 Nov 09)

  
  Välkommen till Peter Englund
Speers hustru Margret finns vid bädden, och en läkare tar henne avsides och säger att hon måste förbereda sig på det värsta.
Att Speer föll så oförbehållslöst för diktatorn beror nog ytterst på det besynnerliga tomrum som fanns i det han kallade jag.
Speer själv framställer som det var från denna punkt som allt förändrades.
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 Albert Speer
Albert Speer is said to have prolonged the war for at least a year, with the consequent death of hundreds of thousands and widespread ruin.
Albert Speer studied at the technical schools in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Berlin, and acquired an architectural license in 1927.
Albert Speer may have a bit of self-interest in his presentation of events through his own eyes, but the most striking sense of the book is that he is, in fact, an extremely likeable man, and a man of thoughtfulness and conscience.
www.auschwitz.dk /Speer.htm   (2241 words)

  
  Albert Speer: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), sometimes called 'the first architect of the Third Reich', was Hitler's chief architect in Nazi Germany.
Speer also designed a new Chancellery, which included a vast hall designed to be twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors[?] in the Palace of Versailles.
Speer pleaded guilty in the Nuremberg trials after the war and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Spandau Prison, East Berlin, largely for his use of slave labour.
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  Albert Speer
Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), sometimes called 'the first architect of the Third Reich', was Hitler's chief architect in Nazi Germany.
Speer also designed a new Chancellery, which included a vast hall designed to be twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors[?] in the Palace of Versailles.
Speer pleaded guilty in the Nuremberg trials after the war and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Spandau Prison, East Berlin, largely for his use of slave labour.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Albert_Speer.html   (972 words)

  
 Albert Speer - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Speer tenía una personalidad muy atrayente que impresionaba a quienes le conocían.
Speer se defendió diciendo que sólo se trataba de una visita para gente influyente al campo de concentración, y en ningún momento llegaron a sospechar los cometidos más infames del mismo.
Speer, ante sus biógrafos, explicaría acerca de la personalidad de Hitler que fue un ser desprovisto de humanidad, de una verdadera esencia que pusiera límite a sus pasiones.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Speer#Brevario   (5794 words)

  
 Albert Speer information - Search.com
According to Speer's autobiography, Speer visited the Führerbunker towards the end and stated gently but bluntly to Hitler that the war was lost and expressed his opposition to the systematic destruction of Germany while reaffirming his affection and faith in Hitler.
Speer made full use of this by, amongst other things, writing innumerable letters to his family (which were restricted to one outgoing page per month under official regulation) and even having money spent on his behalf from a special bank account for a variety of benign purposes.
Speer's son, also named Albert, became a successful architect in his own right, and was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 (the world exposition that took place in Hanover in the year 2000), design of the Shanghai International Automobile City and the Beijing Olympic complex.
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 Albert Speer
Speer became one of the most loyal members of the Nazi regime and was a member of Hitler's inner circle.
This impressive growth was achieved as a result of Speer's use of prisoners of war and civilian slave laborers in the munitions factories.
Speer was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal in 1946.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Speer1.html   (642 words)

  
 Albert Speer Jr emerges from Nazi father's shadow - Boston.com
Speer later chose to follow in his father's professional footsteps and become an architect, making his professional break by submitting anonymous proposals for building projects.
Speer, whose father started plans to build Hitler's imperial capital city to be called "Germania," spent part of his childhood at the dictator's Obersalzberg mountain retreat.
Speer senior's claim at the time that he knew nothing of the Holocaust -- which spared him execution -- has since been challenged by historians who showed, for example, that he sanctioned material to extend the Auschwitz death camp.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/01/05/albert_speer_jr_emerges_from_nazi_fathers_shadow   (942 words)

  
 Albert Speer ww2 3rd Reich first Architect
Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), sometimes called 'the first architect of the Third Reich', was Hitler's chief architect in Nazi Germany.
Speer also designed a new Chancellery, which included a vast hall designed to be twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.
Speer pleaded guilty in the Nuremberg trials after the war and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Spandau Prison, West Berlin, largely for his use of slave labour.
www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/albert_speer.htm   (1396 words)

  
 Albert Speer
Albert Speer, the son of an architect, was born in Mannheim on 19th March, 1905.
Speer clashed with Heinrich Himmler arguing that concentration camp factories were inefficient and preferred using paid labour in occupied countries.
Speer has allowed himself to be influenced by his industrialists and is continually saying that he does not intend to lift a finger to cut the German people's lifeline; this is for our enemies to do; he does not intend to take responsibility for it.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERspeer.htm   (2394 words)

  
 Albert Speer, The Only Friend
Albert Speer, one of Hitler's closest associates, testified at the Nuremberg Trials: "If Hitler had any friends at all, I certainly would have been one of his close friends.."
Speer was one of the few exceptions to Hitler's deeply rooted suspicion of men of middle-class origin.
Field Marshal Erhard Milch, a devoted friend of Speer, later recalled how Hitler's henchmen were trying to oust Albert Speer.
www.shoah.dk /Hitler/new_page_13.htm   (472 words)

  
 10/30/95 BOOKS: WAS ALBERT SPEER A REPENTANT NAZI OR A MAN IN DENIAL?
At the 1945-46 war-crimes trial of Nazi leade rs in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities.
Her conclusion: emotionally crippled by an unhappy childhood, Speer was a frustrated romantic whose reciprocated love for Hitler--a sublimated, nonsexual but homoerotic devotion--blinded him to dark realities he chose not to see or hear.
Even Speer's bravely traitorous effort at war's end to countermand Hitler's scorched-earth policy for Germany was insufficient expiation.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/speer.html   (531 words)

  
 The House of Speer
Speer's short answer to that question is: No, he was not copying or outdoing or even thinking much about his father as he conceived his design for the Beijing of the future.
Speer, who, despite his name has made a highly successful career elsewhere in Germany and around the world, questions about his axis and that other axis are both inevitable and not very welcome.
Speer said, mentioning two of them in particular, Gitta Sereny's "Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth" and Joachim Fest's "The Final Verdict." The son, in other words, is interested in his father and his complicated, much studied role, but he is clear that their professional attitudes are entirely unalike.
www.clta-gny.org /speer.htm   (645 words)

  
 Albert Speer at AllExperts
Speer claimed to have been quite affected, not only with Hitler's proposed solutions to the threat of communism and his renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles, but also with the man himself.
Speer made full use of this by, amongst other things, writing innumerable letters to his family (which were restricted to one outgoing page per month under official regulation) and even having money spent on his behalf from a special bank account for a variety of benign purposes.
Speer's oldest son, also named Albert, became a successful architect in his own right, and was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 (the world exposition that took place in Hanover in the year 2000), design of the Shanghai International Automobile City and the Beijing Olympic complex.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/albert_speer.htm   (3008 words)

  
 Speer Cross-Examination
SPEER: That was the question of the so-called "Bummelanten," and by that name we meant workers who did not get to their work on time or who pretended to be ill. Severe measures were taken against such workers during the war, and I approved of these measures.
SPEER: Generally speaking one can say that in the end every article which in wartime is produced in the home country, whether it is a pair of shoes for the workers, or clothing, or coal is, of courseis made to assist in the war effort.
SPEER: I said yesterday that the responsibility for labor conditions was divided up between the Food Ministry, the Health Office in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, the Labor Trustee in the office of the Plenipotentiary General for the Allocation of Labor, and J so on.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/Speer.html   (17633 words)

  
 Albert Speer Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Albert Speer (1905-1081) may have known of the atrocities committed in Germany during the Nazi era, but claimed he did not.
Speer's family made it clear that Margarethe did not, in their opinion, measure up to the social standards of the Speer family, but the young couple ignored them and were eventually married.
Speer was pleased with the high level of responsibility given to such a young architect.
www.bookrags.com /biography/albert-speer   (1230 words)

  
 Albert Speer
Speer would later remark that the educational upbringing in the 20s emphasized uncritical acceptance of authority and formed the basis for an easily manipulated society.
Although Speer was initially sceptical of Hitler's reputation and his rowdy entourage, the enthusiasm of the crowd, Hitler's respectable and modest appearance in a blue suit and the historical lecture he calmly delivered impressed Speer immensely.
Speer used slave labor, including a little from the concentration camps, to compensate for the lack of men able to work in the factories.
www.translucency.com /frede/speer.html   (3230 words)

  
 Biographie: Albert Speer, 1905-1981
In dieser Funktion wird Speer zum verantwortlichen Leiter der gesamten Kriegswirtschaft.
Speer kann jedoch glaubhaft machen, darüber nicht informiert gewesen zu sein und keine Kontakte zu den "Verschwörern" gehabt zu haben.
Speers Buch wird zu einem der größten Memoirenerfolge der Bundesrepublik.
www.hdg.de /lemo/html/biografien/SpeerAlbert/index.html   (737 words)

  
 Albert Speer (Biografie)
Ich hörte, dass der Umbau seinen Beifall fand, was mich mit Stolz erfüllte [...] (Albert Speer: Erinnerungen.
Januar 1938 erhielt Albert Speer den Auftrag, in der Voßstraße Häuser abzureißen und eine Neue Reichskanzlei zu bauen.
März stattfand und zu der auch Speer zeitweise hinzugezogen wurde.
www.dieterwunderlich.de /Albert_Speer.htm   (2527 words)

  
 Albert Speer
Albert Speer, the son of an architect, was born in Mannheim, Germany 19 March 1905.
Together Hitler and Speer made plans for the new Berlin, a capital that was to be the finest and most important in, all of Europe.
Speer was never interested in politics, never used a military weapon and knew nothing of armaments but responded to the call of duty and accepted.
www.germandaggers.info /speer.htm   (975 words)

  
 Albert Speer Biography | World of Criminal Justice   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Albert Speer was a German architect who became a close advisor to Adolph Hitler in the 1930s.
Speer was charged with designing a master plan for Berlin and for creating a permanent facility for party rallies and conventions in Nuremberg.
Speer refused an explicit order from Hitler to start a scorched earth action that would have destroyed German industry and infrastructure in areas about to fall to the Allies.
www.bookrags.com /biography/albert-speer-cri   (527 words)

  
 Trial Watch : Albert Speer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Albert Speer was born the son of an architect in Mannheim.
Speer was accused of using his different positions and his personal influence to take part in the military and economic planning and preparation of a war of aggression and a war in violation of international treaties (count 1 and 2).
Speer was arrested by the Allied Forces on 23 May 1945.
www.trial-ch.org /en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/albert_speer_113.html   (361 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Spandau: The Secret Diaries: Books: Albert Speer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And, when Albert Speer was captured and sentenced at Nuremberg--after becoming the only defendant to plead guilty--he started keeping this secret diary, much of it on toilet paper.
Albert Speer could not have known that Rudolf Hess was genuinely ill with an undetected stomach ulcer when he wrote how Hess complained so much of being in pain.
Speer does give his psychological insights into why he became a member of the Nazi parties and the duties he was given.
www.amazon.ca /Spandau-Secret-Diaries-Albert-Speer/dp/0026995018   (1582 words)

  
 Nationalsozialismus.de » Albert Speer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Speer studierte zunächst „aus finanziellen Gründen“ in Karlsruhe und von Frühjahr 1924 bis Sommer 1925 an der Technischen Hochschule München.
Speer gehörte seitdem endgültig zum engsten Kreis der Machthaber um den “Führer”.
Wolters warf Speer vor, seine Parteifreunde beim Nürnberger Prozeß symbolisch getreten und damit verraten zu haben.
www.nationalsozialismus.de /lexikon/albert-speer   (2742 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Albert Speer Biography
Speer studied in the technical colleges in Munich and Berlin, before gaining his architectural license in 1927.
Speer was appointed minister of armaments and munitions in 1942, a position later enlarged to minister of armaments and war production.
Speer was put on trial at Nuremberg after the war and pleaded guilty.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_story/566:0/1/Albert_Speer.htm   (371 words)

  
 Albert Speer and the Immorality of the Technicians
Albert Speer, on the other hand, broke away at the turn of the year 1944-5, when in joining the resistance movement and the preparations for the assassination of Hitler he sought to correct the fallacy of his life: that one can simultaneously sit at the table of power and not sit at it.
Speer willingly transferred his personal admiration for his patron and Fuhrer to the latter's architectural ideas, of which it might rightly be said, as the wife of party architect Paul Ludwig Troost said of Hitler's views on art in general, that he had got stuck at the year 1890.
Speer's example proves that it was rather the weakness and insignificance of the men who made up his entourage that ensured the 'Fuhrer' his unchallenged superiority right to the end.
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