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. The Speer houses are on the right side. [46] Eventually, 75,000 Jews were displaced by these measures. [173] In 2005, The Daily Telegraph reported that documents had surfaced indicating that Speer had approved the allocation of materials for the expansion of Auschwitz concentration camp after two of his assistants inspected the facility on a day when almost a thousand Jews were massacred. Mr. Speer had been taken to the . Another myth posits that Speer revolutionized the German war machine after his appointment as Minister of Armaments. [5], Following his release from Spandau, Speer donated the Chronicle, his personal diary, to the German Federal Archives. On 23 May, two weeks after the surrender of German forces, British troops arrested the members of the Flensburg Government and brought Nazi Germany to a formal end. 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 ." It was for the maltreatment of these people, that Speer was principally convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. The myth began to fall apart in the 1980s, when the armaments miracle was attributed to Nazi propaganda. Despite this opposition, the two married in Berlin on 28 August 1928; seven years elapsed before Margarete was invited to stay at her in-laws' home. While dozens of submarines were built, few ever entered service. [120], On 18 July 1947, Speer was transferred to Spandau Prison in Berlin to serve his prison term. [80], In December 1943, Speer visited Organisation Todt workers in Lapland, while there he seriously damaged his knee and was incapacitated for several months. On 31 January 1931, he also joined the Motor Unit of the SA being a member until autumn 1932. [3] Henry T. King, deputy prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials who later wrote a book about Speer said, "Love and warmth were lacking in the household of Speer's youth. Speer's mother asked Albert to do something to get Ernst out. He lost Hitler's unconditional support and began to lose power. During his life, he worked on redesigning city centers of . The houses still look very much the same. [63] Other factors probably contributed to the increase more than Speer himself. 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. (Black and white photographs from Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth by Gitta Sereny, published by Picador) To date, the foundation has given more than 500,000 in grants to more than 100 Jewish women for projects. Hitler appointed Speer as head of the Chief Office for Construction, which placed him nominally on Hess's staff. [93] He opposed the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944. 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. [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. [90] By this time, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories. The oldest brother turned into a thorn in his youger brother Albert Speer. His claim was revealed to be false in a private correspondence written in 1971 and publicly disclosed in 2007. Speer II is more than an urban planner. Once Speer became aware of the existence of the fund, he sent detailed instructions about what to do with the money. "[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. He assumed his German readers would not be so gullible and told them the Nazi Party offered a "new mission". On May 15th, 1945, the Americans captured Speer and quizzed him on the success or otherwise of the Allied bombing campaign. [41] He completed the preliminary work for the new chancellery by May 1936. [30] Nuremberg was the site of many official Nazi buildings. Ultimately, when their emergence involved the ruin of all his work, Speer accepted the consequences and acted. The cylinder is now a protected landmark and is open to the public. [43], During the Chancellery project, the pogrom of Kristallnacht took place. [58] Characteristically Hitler did not give Speer any clear remit; he was left to fight his contemporaries in the regime for power and control. [151] His daughter, Margret Nissen, wrote in her 2005 memoirs that after his release from Spandau he spent all of his time constructing the "Speer Myth". The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen ("Recollections") (Propylen/Ullstein, 1969), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1970 as Inside the Third Reich; then as Spandauer Tagebcher ("Spandau Diaries") (Propylen/Ullstein, 1975), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1976 as Spandau: The Secret Diaries. Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. The book also shows a photograph from 1943, of . The program while advanced proved to be an impediment to the war economy. When you take it you'll get to an open field where you can see the Speer houses. [124], The prisoners were forbidden to write memoirs. [59] Speer proved to be ambitious, unrelenting and ruthless. 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. On 27 January 1938, Speer received plenipotentiary powers from Hitler to finish the new chancellery by 1 January 1939. [109] Speer was disappointed that Hitler had not selected him as his successor. Victoria married. It began in 1932 but had not supplied any weaponry. [75] By April 1943, Sauckel had supplied 1,568,801 "voluntary" laborers, forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners to Speer for use in his armaments factories. Nobody else in Hitler's circle, not even Josef Goebbels, was shown such favoritism. 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. "[1]:498507, In a 23 August 1970 review published in The New York Times, John Toland wrote that the book "is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. [29] Speer modified Werner March's design for the Olympic Stadium being built for the 1936 Summer Olympics. With Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell, Blythe Danner. [26], The image of the good Nazi was supported by numerous Speer myths. 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. Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. [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. [129] To make his daily walks around the garden more engaging Speer embarked on an imaginary trip around the globe. 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 . It had been edited by Wolters and made no mention of the Jews. An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. Sept. 21, 2017. Hosted by askropp and Frech. [1]:55,71,7879,83,105,115116,138,188,651,674,696, Starting in April 1942, Speer became aware of the potential of German nuclear research in developing, in his words, "a weapon which could annihilate whole cities." [155] Isabell Trommer writes in her biography of Speer that Fest and Siedler were co-authors of Speer's memoirs and co-creators of his myths. [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. He was not involved in the plot, and played a minor role in the regime's efforts to regain control over Berlin after Hitler survived. By Thomas Rogers 23 May 2017 The designs were rushed into production, and the completed submarines were crippled by flaws which resulted from the way they had been constructed. The existing Berlin railroad termini were to be dismantled, and two large new stations built. His formal title was changed on 2 September 1943, to "Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production". This article is about the book. It was used for Nazi propaganda rallies and can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will. The public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich and a major war criminal became a popular figure almost overnight. Speer went on to quote Hitler as telling him privately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, "We will create a great empire. Speer in response used his propaganda expertise to display a new dynamism of the war economy. [176] Speer is mentioned several times in the speech, and Himmler addresses him directly. [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. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the benefit of the German war effort. Summary: "Inside the Third Reich 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. Before World War II, Speer helped propel the Nazi vision of grandeur and superiority. 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). It is primarily based on the memoirs of Gertraud "Traudl" Junge ( Alexandra Maria Lara ), one of Hitler's secretaries, and is one of the most accurate portrayals of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich and its effects on the Fhrer, his closest aides, and ordinary Germans. I am sure that an oppressive feeling struck me as I drove past. [127], Much of Speer's energy was dedicated to keeping fit, both physically and mentally, during his long confinement. 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 the summer of 1942 Paulus advanced toward Stalingrad with 250,000 men, 500 tanks, 7,000 guns and mortars, and 25,000 horses. Son of Albert Friedrich Speer and Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) Speer. After one of these briefings, Hitler invited Speer to lunch, to the architect's great excitement. happened. [40] Speer was involved virtually from the beginning. Brother of Hermann Speer and Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer. He had become one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. After his release on 1 October 1966, he used Federal Archive documents to rework the material into his autobiography. Little remains of his personal architectural work. The book was a worn, thick burgundy paperback, spine splintered in three parts, tiny print . After he failed to do so, his father gave him a part-time job as manager of his properties. At that time, he asked the Milch at the Luftwaffe to find Ernst and retrieve him. [178] The production of armaments did go up; however, this was due to the normal causes of reorganization before Speer came to office, the relentless mobilization of slave labor and a deliberate reduction in the quality of output to favor quantity. 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. [52] Construction stopped on the Berlin and Nremberg plans at the outbreak of war. he is one of Germany's top architects. 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). It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. 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. [43] The Schutzstaffel (SS) built two concentration camps in 1938 and used the inmates to quarry stone for its construction. [19] This work won Speer his first national post, as Nazi Party "Commissioner for the Artistic and Technical Presentation of Party Rallies and Demonstrations". [64] Another factor that produced the boom in ammunition was the policy of allocating more coal to the steel industry. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (German: [pe] ( listen); March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them. [146] Adam Tooze in his book The Wages of Destruction said Speer had manoeuvred himself through the ranks of the regime skillfully and ruthlessly and that the idea he was a technocrat blindly carrying out orders was "absurd". 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". His sister's name was Carrie. [97] However, he concluded that the war was lost after Soviet forces captured the important Silesian industrial region later that month. After joining the Nazi Party in 1930, Speer became Adolf Hitler's personal architect. In the World War II, Hitler appointed him as the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany. Yet each showed comparable increases in production despite not being under Speer's control. Supposing politics to be irrelevant, he turned aside and built roads and bridges and factories, while the logical consequences of government by madmen emerged. I myself must carry this out. [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. Described by associates as ice cold. "[4] Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion. His brothers names were Charles, Albert, Louis (Ludwig), and On one such business trip, Speer's friend and close associate Hans Stephan unexpectedly found himself on the frontlines of war, an account he would later publish as Niederlndisches Tagebuch [Dutch Diary].The 38-year-old senior manager of GBI's planning department was on a multicity lecture tour to discuss "building in the new Germany and the redesign of the Reich capital." On 20 July 1942, Speer was enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of. In response, Hitler appointed Fritz Sauckel as a "manpower dictator" to obtain new workers. Albert Speer was the Nazi Party's chief architect, a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and the brains behind the Nazi military production machine. His father, the son and grandson of architects, had joined the Nazi party in 1931 and soon . [177], The armaments "miracle" was a myth; Speer had used statistical manipulation to support his claims. [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. Speer's joint undertaking with the SS leadership resulted in the creation of Mittelwerk (Central Works) for underground production of the V-2. Importantly, he provided an alibi to older Germans who had been Nazis. [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". . 1971. 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 . Yet development and production would take at least two years. 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. [87], The Fighter Staff committee was instrumental in bringing about the increased exploitation of slave labor in the war economy. [102][103] Hitler rejected Speer's proposal to cease demolitions. When the commission was completed, Speer returned to Mannheim and remained there as Hitler took office in January1933. Ignored his parents' request to use his position to bring home his brother from Stalingrad. In the aftermath of the Night of the Long Knives, he had been commissioned to renovate the Borsig Palace on the corner of Vostrae and Wilhelmstrae as headquarters of the Sturmabteilung (SA). The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. After August 1944, oil from the Romanian fields was no longer available. As a Nazi Party member, she had greatly enjoyed dining with Hitler. [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. He maintained Hitler was cool towards him for the remainder of his life after learning they had included him on a list of potential ministers. 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. [145], Speer's memoirs were a phenomenal success. [179], Little remains of Speer's personal architectural works, other than the plans and photographs. Discussions on the personalities of the Wehrmacht and of the organizations not covered in the other sections. [111] Speer provided information to the Allies, regarding the effects of the air war, and on a broad range of subjects, beginning on 10 May. There were so many corpses at the Dora underground factory, for example, that the crematorium was overwhelmed. Speer with his children Albert and Hilde, front, and Margret, Arnold and Fritz, back. Showing 28 distinct works. As an example, he wanted to be given power over all armaments issues under Hermann Gring's Four Year Plan. [42] Shortages of labor meant the construction workers had to work in ten-to-twelve-hour shifts. 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. He coveted control of the production of armaments for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine as well. Speer first heard Adolf Hitler speak during an address to the combined students and faculty of Berlin University and his institute. This delayed the program, and Speer was unable to remedy the situation. It's the end of an era: The company's founder Professor Albert Speer passes away in September aged 83. Instead, he issued the "Nero Decree" on 19 March, which called for the destruction of all infrastructure as the army retreated. [73] Sauckel obtained new workers often using the most brutal methods. The V-2's first target was Paris on 8 September 1944. [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. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. [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. The battle is infamous as one of the largest . 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). Speer, Albert (1905-81). [104] During a meeting with Speer on 28/29 March, Hitler rescinded the decree and gave him authority over demolitions. [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. Born 1906 [location unknown] Ancestors. Of the 60,000 people who ended up at the camp 20,000 died, due to the appalling conditions. [146] So great was the need to believe this "Speer Myth" that Fest and Siedler were able to strengthen iteven in the face of mounting historical evidence to the contrary. [91], On 14 April 1944, Speer lost control of Organisation Todt to his Deputy, Franz Xaver Dorsch. 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. [125] He had completed his memoirs by November 1953, which became the basis of Inside the Third Reich. [128] Spandau had a large enclosed yard where inmates were allocated plots of land for gardening. Men da Moritz Schramm var barn, var det et andet blik, han havde p morfaren. [85] The growth, however, consisted in large part of models that were becoming obsolescent and proved easy prey for Allied aircraft. He admitted only to being uncomfortable around Jews in the published version of the Spandau Diaries. In 1944, this became endemic; over half a million workers were arrested. [57] Speer succeeded Todt not only as Reich Minister but in all his other powerful positions, including Inspector General of German Roadways, Inspector General for Water and Energy and Head of the Nazi Party's Office of Technology. Four years into their relationship, in September 1981, Speer died. Using misleading statistics, he promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was widely credited with keeping Germany in the war. [157] In return they were paid handsomely in royalties and other financial inducements. Como Ministro do Armamento, Speer foi responsvel pela grande produtividade da Alemanha neste setor nos anos finais da Segunda Guerra Mundial. 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". Konrad Hermann Albert Speer personal architectural Works, other than the plans and photographs and ruthless the! 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