During his life, he worked on redesigning city centers of . Yet development and production would take at least two years. "[4] Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion. When you take it you'll get to an open field where you can see the Speer houses. Hello. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [55] At the same time, Hitler also appointed Speer as head of the Organisation Todt, a massive, government-controlled construction company. [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". His father, who died in 1947, despised the Nazis and was silent upon meeting Hitler. [6] He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied architecture. by. After one of these briefings, Hitler invited Speer to lunch, to the architect's great excitement. [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. Born 1906 [location unknown] Ancestors. [90] By this time, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories. [118] On 1 October 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. This allowed an extra 300 huts to be built at Auschwitz, increasing the total human capacity to 132,000. There were so many corpses at the Dora underground factory, for example, that the crematorium was overwhelmed. Today: Still there. [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. Many more buildings were planned. 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. Speer was born in Mannheim, Germany on March 19, 1905, to Luise and Albert. 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. 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. The journalist described an invented scenario in which Speer had refused Hitler's orders and Hitler had left with tears in his eyes. 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 ." 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. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. [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. In this position, Speer used millions of forced laborers to raise economic production. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. [154] In his memoirs and interviews, he had distorted the truth and made so many major omissions that his lies became known as "myths". Instead, development turned to a "uranium motor", for use in the navy's submarines. [51] Speer used forced Jewish labor on these projects, in addition to regular German workers. A scene from 'Rise of the Nazis' Photo: 72 Films. 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". Albert Speer Jr., one of the most important German architects and urban planners, died unexpectedly on September 15, 2017 in Frankfurt. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. 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. First published in 1969, it appeared in English translation in 1970. the atmosphere was said the best ever it was actually worded they 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. [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. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. 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 [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. [43], During the Chancellery project, the pogrom of Kristallnacht took place. The myth began to fall apart in the 1980s, when the armaments miracle was attributed to Nazi propaganda. [148] In October 1973, he made his first trip to Britain, flying to London to be interviewed on the BBC Midweek programme. It was used for Nazi propaganda rallies and can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Speer liked the scenario so much that he wrote it into his memoirs. [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". Startseite; Cytologie. [168] Speer also falsely claimed that he had realised the war was lost at an early stage, and thereafter worked to preserve the resources needed for the civilian population's survival. In the letter, Speer says, "There is no doubtI was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed. [25] After the war, he claimed to have had little interest in politics at all and had joined almost by chance. [165] Trommer said he was not an apolitical technocrat; instead, he was one of the most powerful and unscrupulous leaders in the Nazi regime. He had claimed that he was unaware of Nazi extermination plans, and the Allies had no proof that he was aware. Martin Kitchen, a British historian, says that the choice was not surprising. Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and commanded millions of prisoners in the forced production of weaponry, had a comfortable second life. Sept. 21, 2017. Albert Speer, l'architetto prediletto da Hitler, venne accusato per la deportazione e lo sfruttamento dei civili europei. After August 1944, oil from the Romanian fields was no longer available. Once Speer became aware of the existence of the fund, he sent detailed instructions about what to do with the money. Until 2 September 1943 the position's official name was Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. However, his other brother Ernst had died in the Battle of Stalingrad, despite repeated requests from his parents for Speer to repatriate him. [88] The SS provided 64,000 prisoners for 20 separate projects from various concentration camps including Mittelbau-Dora. Discussions on the personalities of the Wehrmacht and of the organizations not covered in the other sections. 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. 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. [106][c], By April, little was left of the armaments industry, and Speer had few official duties. [104] During a meeting with Speer on 28/29 March, Hitler rescinded the decree and gave him authority over demolitions. [105] Speer ended them, though the army continued to blow up bridges. Brother of Hermann Speer and Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer. Hitler became interested in Speer through his own interest in the arts. [59] Speer proved to be ambitious, unrelenting and ruthless. [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". Trevor-Roper frequently refers to Speer as "a technocrat [who] nourished a technocrat's philosophy", one who cared only for his building projects or his ministerial duties, and who thought that politics was irrelevant, at least until Hitler's Nero Decree which Speer, according to his own telling, worked assiduously to counter. When the commission was completed, Speer returned to Mannheim and remained there as Hitler took office in January1933. [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. [85] The growth, however, consisted in large part of models that were becoming obsolescent and proved easy prey for Allied aircraft. Speer was appalled by this order, and persuaded several key military and political leaders to ignore it. Showing 28 distinct works. Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. [73] Sauckel obtained new workers often using the most brutal methods. [93] He opposed the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944. body was never found or returned to the family and there are some Fun facts: before fame, family life, popularity rankings, and more. Founded in 1999. 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". Then it was too late; Germany had been destroyed. [130] Speer also read, studied architectural journals, and brushed up on English and French. This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. - Han var ikke sdan en morfar, man sad p skdet af, og . Ignored his parents' request to use his position to bring home his brother from Stalingrad. In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. For Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others Speer Jr., one of the existence the! 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