Adam Tooze wrote in The Wages of Destruction that the idea that Speer was an apolitical technocrat was "absurd". von Speer, Albert: und eine groe Auswahl hnlicher Bcher, Kunst und Sammlerstcke erhltlich auf AbeBooks.de. Want to Read. In 1918, moved to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany. Detailed plans were completed in July 1937 and the first shell of the new chancellery was complete on 1 January 1938. 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. "[118], Speer was credited with an "armaments miracle". He coveted control of the production of armaments for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine as well. [139] Although he stated he hoped to resume an architectural career, his sole project, a collaboration for a brewery, was unsuccessful. BERLIN When Hilde Schramm inherited several paintings collected by her father, Hitler's chief architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer, she was only sure of one thing: she did not want. Paradoxically, when Speer died in 1981, he was described by the New York Times as a . [37] Speer hired Wolters as part of his design team, with special responsibility for the Prachtstrasse. The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. [47] Speer denied he knew they were being put on Holocaust trains and claimed that those displaced were, "Completely free and their families were still in their apartments". [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. Efforts were made and a search of Ernst's unit ended in failure. August 1, 2017. In his writings, Speer claimed to have finished five thousand books while in prison. 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. His claim was revealed to be false in a private correspondence written in 1971 and publicly disclosed in 2007. While they were there his friend, Nazi Party official Karl Hanke recommended the young architect to Joseph Goebbels to help renovate the Party's Berlin headquarters. [29] Speer modified Werner March's design for the Olympic Stadium being built for the 1936 Summer Olympics. 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. FC Bayern Munich opens a new sports complex with a youth academy planned by AS+P. Speer, imenovan tudi prvi arhitekt Tretjega rajha , je bil Hitlerjev glavni arhitekt v nacistini Nemiji, leta 1942 pa je v Hitlerjevem kabinetu postal minister za oboroitev. [81], In response to the Allied Big Week, Adolf Hitler authorized the creation of a Fighter Staff committee. Men da Moritz Schramm var barn, var det et andet blik, han havde p morfaren. [80], In December 1943, Speer visited Organisation Todt workers in Lapland, while there he seriously damaged his knee and was incapacitated for several months. Speer's mother asked Albert to do something to get Ernst out. [90] By this time, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories. [14] The couple would have six children together, but Albert Speer grew increasingly distant from his family after 1933. Those who feigned illness, slacked off, sabotaged production or tried to escape were denied food or sent to concentration camps. Albert Einstein lived in the USA, so was not where the holocaust 4.10 avg rating 13,205 ratings published 1969 86 editions. [94] After the plot Speer's rivals attacked some of his closest allies and his management system fell out of favor with radicals in the party. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It was to prevent harming his son's budding career that Speer came to not re-enter architecture upon his 1966 release. I knew that these must be Berlin Jews who were being evacuated. However, his other brother Ernst had died in the Battle of Stalingrad, despite repeated requests from his parents for Speer to repatriate him. [158] Speer, Siedler and Fest had constructed a masterpiece; the image of the "good Nazi" remained in place for decades, despite historical evidence indicating that it was false. Die Zelle. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". [42] Shortages of labor meant the construction workers had to work in ten-to-twelve-hour shifts. [29] Speer insisted that as many events as possible be held at night, both to give greater prominence to his lighting effects and to hide the overweight Nazis. Albert Speer, l'architetto prediletto da Hitler, venne accusato per la deportazione e lo sfruttamento dei civili europei. the eldest went to visit his brother while in spandau prison and Oil production became so low that any possibility of offensive action became impossible and weaponry lay idle. In July1932, the Speers visited Berlin to help out the Party before the Reichstag elections. Hitler appointed Speer as head of the Chief Office for Construction, which placed him nominally on Hess's staff. Speer did not act on the request until mid-January 1943. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. The house had a studio were Hitler (see Hitler parents) often came to draw his . This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. Speer went on to quote Hitler as telling him privately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, "We will create a great empire. [83] His political rivals used the opportunity to undermine his authority and damage his reputation with Hitler. 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. 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. This was probably the start of the downfall of the Reich. The book also shows a photograph from 1943, of . [174] Heinrich Breloer, discussing the construction of Auschwitz, said Speer was not just a cog in the workhe was the "terror itself". [131], Speer's supporters maintained calls for his release. "[4] His brothers, Ernst and Hermann, bullied him throughout his childhood. Before that, Speer worked as the chief architect in Hitler's Nazi . 1971. [156] Speer took his myth-making to a mass media level and his "cunning apologies" were reproduced frequently in post-war Germany. By Thomas Rogers 23 May 2017 a nemzeti szocialista Nmet Birodalom fptsze, fegyverkezsi minisztere, a haditermels irnytja.. A hbor befejezse utn Nrnbergben egyetlen volt a brsg el lltott szemlyek kzl, aki elismerte felelssgt a msodik vilghbors esemnyekrt, hsz . Speer was formally arrested on May 23rd. [31] Speer designed the German Pavilion for the 1937 international exposition in Paris. [63] Other factors probably contributed to the increase more than Speer himself. Before World War II, Speer helped propel the Nazi vision of grandeur and superiority. [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. [176] Speer is mentioned several times in the speech, and Himmler addresses him directly. [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. This image dominated his historiography in the decades following the war, giving rise to the "Speer Myth": the perception of him as an apolitical technocrat responsible for revolutionizing the German war machine. Supposing politics to be irrelevant, he turned aside and built roads and bridges and factories, while the logical consequences of government by madmen emerged. His sentence of twenty years amounted to 7,305 days, which only allotted one and a half days per book. Secured early release from prison, became a media celebrity and successfully cultivated the "clean Speer" myth. happened. In the letter, Speer says, "There is no doubtI was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed. Albert Speer, Germany Architect. [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. Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. 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 . [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. Instead, he issued the "Nero Decree" on 19 March, which called for the destruction of all infrastructure as the army retreated. The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. He assumed his German readers would not be so gullible and told them the Nazi Party offered a "new mission". This led to the development of Germany's first cyclotron. From 1946 to 1966, while serving the sentence in Spandau Prison, he penned more than 2,000 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. [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. After serving. Speer was aided in shaping the works by Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler from the publishing house Ullstein. Na Nrnberkom procesu preuzeo je moralnu odgovornost za svoja djela te je priznao ignorantnost po pitanju Holokausta. Three days later, he also proposed to Hitler that Germany's remaining military resources be concentrated along the Rhine and Vistula rivers in an attempt to prolong the fighting. After the disasters of the battle of Moscow (Operation Typhoon) and even after Stalingrad Germany manages to greatly increase its military production, even though the allies were launching a major bombing campaign against them. 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