Post [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. [181] The tribune of the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, though partly demolished, can also be seen. This ignored military realities, as the German armed forces were unable to match the Allies' firepower and were facing total defeat. [70], Speer realized that with six million workers drafted into the armed forces, there was a labor shortage in the war economy, and not enough workers for his factories. Speer (Albert Speer's brother) and his life. 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. Speer states that even if Germany concentrated all of its resources, it would have been 1947 before they could have had an atom bomb. [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. His father, who died in 1947, despised the Nazis and was silent upon meeting Hitler. [87], The Fighter Staff committee was instrumental in bringing about the increased exploitation of slave labor in the war economy. Sauckel had whole villages in France, Holland and Belgium forcibly rounded up and shipped to Speer's factories. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. [155] Speer was photographed with slave laborers at Mauthausen concentration camp during a visit on 31 March 1943; he also visited Gusen concentration camp. Speer was to be replaced by his subordinate, Karl-Otto Saur. Speer's desperate mother called Speer . 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. Among those who pledged support for his sentence to be commuted were Charles de Gaulle and US diplomat George Wildman Ball. [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. The house had a studio were Hitler (see Hitler parents) often came to draw his . [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 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. Speer did not act on the request until mid-January 1943. Ernst Speer. [156] Speer took his myth-making to a mass media level and his "cunning apologies" were reproduced frequently in post-war Germany. 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. Stars Laurence Olivier Averell Harriman Albert Speer See production, box office & company info Search on Amazon search for Blu-ray and DVD Add to Watchlist 120 User reviews 5 Critic reviews Top rated TV #14 sort by. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison. 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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. [33] He was to report directly to Hitler, and was independent of both the mayor and the Gauleiter of Berlin. Albert Speer Jr. was born on July 29, 1934, one year after Hitler had consolidated power in Germany. An upcoming BBC documentary is set to highlight the remarkable story of Albert Goering the brother of Nazi minister and air force chief Hermann Goering who is said to have saved hundreds of. Na Nrnberkom procesu preuzeo je moralnu odgovornost za svoja djela te je priznao ignorantnost po pitanju Holokausta. [66], As Minister of Armaments, Speer was responsible for supplying weapons to the army. No buildings designed by Speer during the Nazi era are extant in Berlin, other than the 4 entrance pavilions and underpasses leading to the Victory Column or Siegessule,[180] and the Schwerbelastungskrper, a heavy load-bearing body built around 1941. The journalist described an invented scenario in which Speer had refused Hitler's orders and Hitler had left with tears in his eyes. [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. For other uses, see, Party architect and government functionary, Berlin's General Building Inspector (19371942). He was charged with planning for war, planning a war of aggression, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Inside the Third Reich. Hitler's cabinet was dismayed at his tactics, but, regardless, he was able to accumulate new responsibilities and more power. "[4] Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion. He added a stone exterior that pleased Hitler. [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. [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. [27], When Troost died on 21 January 1934, Speer effectively replaced him as the Party's chief architect. 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". [58] Characteristically Hitler did not give Speer any clear remit; he was left to fight his contemporaries in the regime for power and control. Then it was too late; Germany had been destroyed. 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 . Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. He lost Hitler's unconditional support and began to lose power. Mr. Speer had been taken to the . On 20 July 1942, Speer was enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of. He was able to curtail the discussion that the war should be ended. Martin Kitchen, a British historian, says that the choice was not surprising. all Albert Speer wanted was to feel important. [52] Speer's building work made him among the wealthiest of the Nazi elite. [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. 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. [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. Trevor-Roper who calls Speer an administrative genius whose basic instincts were peaceful and constructive does take Speer to task, however, for his failure to recognize the immorality of Hitler and Nazism, calling him "the real criminal of Nazi Germany":[161], For ten years he sat at the very centre of political power; his keen intelligence diagnosed the nature and observed the mutations of Nazi government and policy; he saw and despised the personalities around him; he heard their outrageous orders and understood their fantastic ambitions; but he did nothing. Many more buildings were planned. [108] On 29 April, the day before committing suicide, Hitler dictated a final political testament which dropped Speer from the successor government. The designs were rushed into production, and the completed submarines were crippled by flaws which resulted from the way they had been constructed. A lbert Speer was born in 1905 in Mannheim to an upper-middle-class family that had benefited from Germany's meteoric economic growth. [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. Speer has paid his penance for his part of the inner circle and had come to the realization of Germany's reality during WWII. [39], Plans to build a new Reich chancellery had been underway since 1934. [163] By 1999, historians had amply demonstrated that Speer had lied extensively. In consequence, despite tank production having the highest priority, relatively little of the armaments budget was spent on it. This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. The relationship was frowned upon by Speer's class-conscious mother, who felt the Webers were socially inferior. [99][169], Speer maintained at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs that he had no direct knowledge of the Holocaust. [69], As head of Organisation Todt, Speer was directly involved in the construction and alteration of concentration camps. Speer enthusiastically supported the program and in March 1942 made an order for A4 rockets, the predecessor of the world's first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket. never got along so good before or after. There were so many corpses at the Dora underground factory, for example, that the crematorium was overwhelmed. Instead, development turned to a "uranium motor", for use in the navy's submarines. With Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell, Blythe Danner. Its aim was to ensure the preservation and growth of fighter aircraft production. Albert Speer, nemki arhitekt in politik, * 19. marec 1905, Mannheim, 1. september 1981, London, Zdrueno kraljestvo . This formed a key element of the myths Speer encouraged. [55] At the same time, Hitler also appointed Speer as head of the Organisation Todt, a massive, government-controlled construction company. The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who became Minister of Armaments and War Production in World War II, died today at St. Mary's Hospital. Hitler appointed Speer, whose work for Goebbels had impressed him, to manage the building site for Troost. Sept. 21, 2017. [104] During a meeting with Speer on 28/29 March, Hitler rescinded the decree and gave him authority over demolitions. By Thomas Rogers 23 May 2017 [5] Speer was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. His formal title was changed on 2 September 1943, to "Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production". Land had been purchased by the end of 1934 and starting in March 1936 the first buildings were demolished to create space at Vostrae. [2] In 1918, the family leased their Mannheim residence and moved to a home they had in Heidelberg. 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). He fabricated the additional details. The existing Berlin railroad termini were to be dismantled, and two large new stations built. He was the second of three sons of Luise Mthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer. His brothers names were Charles, Albert, Louis (Ludwig), and 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. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. Speer was formally arrested on May 23rd. body was never found or returned to the family and there are some He met Hitler and toured the damaged Chancellery before leaving Berlin to return to Hamburg. 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). Supposing politics to be irrelevant, he turned aside and built roads and bridges and factories, while the logical consequences of government by madmen emerged. [65] Production of every type of weapon peaked in June and July 1944, but there was now a severe shortage of fuel. Speer's full length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for the Holocaust. like so many other Germans his [139] Although he stated he hoped to resume an architectural career, his sole project, a collaboration for a brewery, was unsuccessful. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". In the letter, Speer says, "There is no doubtI was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed. 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. "[115] Speer's attorney, Hans Flchsner, successfully contrasted Speer from other defendants[116] and portrayed him as an artist thrust into political life who had always remained a non-ideologue. Albert Speer. [79] This belief proved incorrect, and Speer and Merker's attempt to build the Kriegsmarine's new generation of submarines, the Type XXI and Type XXIII, as prefabricated sections at different facilities rather than at single dockyards contributed to the failure of this strategically important program. I presumably had a sense of somber events. 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. [125] He had completed his memoirs by November 1953, which became the basis of Inside the Third Reich. happened. [82] In mid-January 1944, Speer had a lung embolism and fell seriously ill. albert speers younger brother ernst was killed at Stalingrad Victoria married. [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. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials . By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. One of Speer's grandfathers was among the most successful machine-tool manufacturers in Germany; the other was a well-known architect. He was credited with a dramatic increase in the shipment of arms that was widely reported as keeping Germany in the war. [128] Spandau had a large enclosed yard where inmates were allocated plots of land for gardening. . He was acquitted on the other two counts. [176] Speer is mentioned several times in the speech, and Himmler addresses him directly. [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. [99] During January and February, Speer claimed that his ministry would deliver "decisive weapons" and a large increase in armaments production which would "bring about a dramatic change on the battlefield". This carried with it the rank of State Secretary in the Reich government and gave him extraordinary powers over the Berlin city government. 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. Entrance to Spandau Prison, 1951. [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. He remained so even after his release from imprisonment in 1966, despite their efforts to forge closer bonds. Speer made no mention of it in the first draft of Inside the Third Reich. He assumed his German readers would not be so gullible and told them the Nazi Party offered a "new mission". His mother died in 1952. [77] By July 1943, he had gained control of armaments production for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. Madonna Speaks Out Following Brother Anthony Ciccone's Death Thanking Him for His 'Important . 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. letters that exist between ernst and the parents which he wrote and Most days he was invited to dinner. In this capacity he was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes in Berlin. [68] Hitler was closely involved with the design of the tanks, but kept changing his mind about the specifications. Despite his opposition to the 20 July plot, he falsely claimed in his memoirs to have been sympathetic to the plotters. 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. 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. [59] Speer proved to be ambitious, unrelenting and ruthless. He had walked more than 30,000 kilometres (19,000mi), ending his sentence near Guadalajara, Mexico. [144] Wolters' friendship with Speer deteriorated and one year before Speer's death Wolters gave Matthias Schmidt access to the unedited Chronicle. [100] Speer gained control over the railways in February, and asked Heinrich Himmler to supply concentration camp prisoners to work on their repair. The houses still look very much the same. [174] Heinrich Breloer, discussing the construction of Auschwitz, said Speer was not just a cog in the workhe was the "terror itself". Fun facts: before fame, family life, popularity rankings, and more. At the end of 1933, he contracted Paul Troost to renovate the entire building. 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. [5], Following his release from Spandau, Speer donated the Chronicle, his personal diary, to the German Federal Archives. [183], This article is about the Nazi minister. [117], Speer was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, principally for the use of slave labor and forced labor. As a Nazi Party member, she had greatly enjoyed dining with Hitler. The second season of the PBS series looks at Hitler's planning and the battle that would ultimately cripple the Third Reich. The oldest brother turned into a thorn in his youger brother Yet each showed comparable increases in production despite not being under Speer's control. bio je arhitekt i ministar naoruanja u nacistikoj Njemakoj. 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. [20], Shortly after Hitler came into power, he began to make plans to rebuild the chancellery. [167] Brechtken wrote that his most brazen lie was fabricated during an interview with a French journalist in 1952. Instead, he issued the "Nero Decree" on 19 March, which called for the destruction of all infrastructure as the army retreated. 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. [37] Speer hired Wolters as part of his design team, with special responsibility for the Prachtstrasse. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. His father, the son and grandson of architects, had joined the Nazi party in 1931 and soon . [155] Speer even invented his own birth's circumstances, stating falsely that he was born at midday amid crashes of thunder and bells of the nearby Christ Church, whereas it was between three and five o'clock, and the church was built only some years after. The myth began to fall apart in the 1980s, when the armaments miracle was attributed to Nazi propaganda. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [166] Another myth centered around a faked plan to assassinate Hitler with poisonous gas. Efforts were made and a search of Ernst's unit ended in failure. 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". 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. [157] In return they were paid handsomely in royalties and other financial inducements. According to Speer's daughter Hilde Schramm, "One by one my sister and brothers gave up. Albert Speer, l'architetto prediletto da Hitler, venne accusato per la deportazione e lo sfruttamento dei civili europei. However, his other brother Ernst had died in the Battle of Stalingrad, despite repeated requests from his parents for Speer to repatriate him. Study now. The large capital investment was not repaid in military effectiveness. Naval armaments were not under Speer's supervision until October 1943, nor the Luftwaffe's armaments until June of the following year. by. His first draft was written from March 1953 to 26 December 1954. Speer II is more than an urban planner. [51] Speer used forced Jewish labor on these projects, in addition to regular German workers. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. [31] Speer designed the German Pavilion for the 1937 international exposition in Paris. he is one of Germany's top architects. [50] In his final statement at Nuremberg, Speer gave the impression of apologizing, although he did not directly admit any personal guilt and the only victim he mentioned was the German people. In the World War II, Hitler appointed him as the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany. [149] In the same year, he appeared on the television programme The World at War. [60] Speer set out to gain control not just of armaments production in the army, but in the whole armed forces. 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 . by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post 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. [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". [145], Speer's memoirs were a phenomenal success. Inside the Third Reich: Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. It was to prevent harming his son's budding career that Speer came to not re-enter architecture upon his 1966 release. The cylinder is now a protected landmark and is open to the public. While he sought to frustrate directives to destroy industrial facilities in areas at risk of capture, so that they could be used after the war, he still supported the war's continuation. Nobody else in Hitler's circle, not even Josef Goebbels, was shown such favoritism. A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II. German architect of the Nazi period (1933-45). There was no communication. Albert Speer was a young architect initially seduced by the speeches and rhetoric of Hitler. Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. [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. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, principally for the use of slave labor, narrowly avoiding a death sentence. Speer asked Wolters to destroy the material he had omitted from his donation but Wolters refused and retained an original copy. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. Importantly, he provided an alibi to older Germans who had been Nazis. [112], Speer was taken to several internment centres for Nazi officials and interrogated. [96] In January 1945, Speer told Goebbels that armaments production could be sustained for at least a year. A scene from 'Rise of the Nazis' Photo: 72 Films. 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