FC Bayern Munich opens a new sports complex with a youth academy planned by AS+P. He coveted control of the production of armaments for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine as well. 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. Speer II is more than an urban planner. Speer states he became hopeful when Hitler explained how communism could be checked and Germany could recover economically. [5] Speer was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. He was acquitted on the other two counts. [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. [165] Trommer said he was not an apolitical technocrat; instead, he was one of the most powerful and unscrupulous leaders in the Nazi regime. Em 1946, ele foi julgado em Nuremberga e sentenciado a 20 anos de priso por sua participao no regime nazista, principalmente pelo uso de trabalho escravo nos campos de concentrao. 1971. [122] Speer's parents died while he was incarcerated. [12] In Munich Speer began a close friendship, ultimately spanning over 50 years, with Rudolf Wolters, who also studied under Tessenow. [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. [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. [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. [124], The prisoners were forbidden to write memoirs. Though stockpiling of materials and other work continued, this slowed to a halt as more resources were needed for the armament industry. In the World War II, Hitler appointed him as the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany. Gring was reluctant to grant this. This article is about the book. He had become one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. [114], The chief United States prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, of the U.S. Supreme Court said, "Speer joined in planning and executing the program to dragoon prisoners of war and foreign workers into German war industries, which waxed in output while the workers waned in starvation. [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. Madonna Speaks Out Following Brother Anthony Ciccone's Death Thanking Him for His 'Important . Finally, Speer states, "Because I failed at the time, I still feel, to this day, responsible for Auschwitz in a wholly personal sense. The cylinder is now a protected landmark and is open to the public. He has risen to the top of the . [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. Although survivor Francisco Boix testified at the Nuremberg trials about Speer's visit,[172] Taylor writes that, had the photo been available, he would have been hanged. The task force was established by 1 March 1944, orders of Speer, with support from Erhard Milch of the Reich Aviation Ministry. 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 time Prisoner Number 5Albert Speerwalked out of Spandau Prison on 1 October 1966, he was known to the world as the "Good Nazi.". [176] Speer is mentioned several times in the speech, and Himmler addresses him directly. 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 ." In the letter, Speer says, "There is no doubtI was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed. In July1932, the Speers visited Berlin to help out the Party before the Reichstag elections. 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. During his life, he worked on redesigning city centers of . In 1918, moved to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany. It began in 1932 but had not supplied any weaponry. [54], In 1941, Speer was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 2 (Berlin-West). See answer (1) Copy. [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. In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. 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. The house had a studio were Hitler (see Hitler parents) often came to draw his . 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 . [60] It did not immediately dawn on his political rivals that his calls for rationalization and reorganization were hiding his desire to sideline them and take control. Entrance to Spandau Prison, 1951. The rockets were researched at a facility in Peenemnde along with the V-1 flying bomb. like so many other Germans his body was never found or returned to . Another myth posits that Speer revolutionized the German war machine after his appointment as Minister of Armaments. Detailed plans were completed in July 1937 and the first shell of the new chancellery was complete on 1 January 1938. [141] He found himself unable to re-establish a relationship with his children, even with his son Albert who had also become an architect. There was no communication. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ( Mannheim, 19. oujka 1905. [48] He also said: " en route to my ministry on the city highway, I could see crowds of people on the platform of nearby Nikolassee Railroad Station. 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. In 1942, he was named Minister of Armaments and Munitions, assuming significant responsibility for the German war economy. 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. Germany's armaments production had already begun to result in increases under his predecessor, Todt. Ernst Speer. 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). First published in 1969, it appeared in English translation in 1970. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name. Speer made no mention of it in the first draft of Inside the Third Reich. 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). [53] Speer's offices undertook building work for each branch of the military, and for the SS, using slave labor. He admitted only to being uncomfortable around Jews in the published version of the Spandau Diaries. [58] Characteristically Hitler did not give Speer any clear remit; he was left to fight his contemporaries in the regime for power and control. "[142] He supported Hermann, his brother, financially after the war. Despite his opposition to the 20 July plot, he falsely claimed in his memoirs to have been sympathetic to the plotters. "[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. He had walked more than 30,000 kilometres (19,000mi), ending his sentence near Guadalajara, Mexico. 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 . She was a kind and simple lady, living for her children. Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. von Speer, Albert: und eine groe Auswahl hnlicher Bcher, Kunst und Sammlerstcke erhltlich auf AbeBooks.de. He was 76 years old. [29] Speer modified Werner March's design for the Olympic Stadium being built for the 1936 Summer Olympics. Speer's Heidelberg school offered rugby football, unusual for Germany, skiing, and Speer was a participant. He took a role in that short-lived regime as Minister of Industry and Production. Yet development and production would take at least two years. Born 1906 [location unknown] Ancestors. 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. 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. 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. [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". [56] Hitler appointed Speer in Todt's place. [43] The building itself was hailed by Hitler as the "crowning glory of the greater German political empire". At the end of July 1942, a lack of fuel brought Paulus to a halt at Kalach. Albert was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. [83] His political rivals used the opportunity to undermine his authority and damage his reputation with Hitler. Speer studied at the technical schools in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Berlin, and acquired an architectural license in 1927. [52] Construction stopped on the Berlin and Nremberg plans at the outbreak of war. Minister for Armaments. His brothers names were Charles, Albert, Louis (Ludwig), and Speer was to be replaced by his subordinate, Karl-Otto Saur. [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. [153] He was well-educated, middle class, and bourgeois, and could contrast himself with those who, in the popular mind, typified "bad Nazis". Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. [181] The tribune of the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, though partly demolished, can also be seen. [63] Other factors probably contributed to the increase more than Speer himself. [136] Speer served a full term and was released at midnight on 1 October 1966. This allowed an extra 300 huts to be built at Auschwitz, increasing the total human capacity to 132,000. From 1946 to 1966, while serving the sentence in Spandau Prison, he penned more than 2,000 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. The relationship will always amaze. "[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. [177], The armaments "miracle" was a myth; Speer had used statistical manipulation to support his claims. Speer described the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Gring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, and, of course, Hitler himself. After he failed to do so, his father gave him a part-time job as manager of his properties. [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. Speer provided Hitler with a memorandum on 15 March, which detailed Germany's dire economic situation and sought approval to cease demolitions of infrastructure. . After August 1944, oil from the Romanian fields was no longer available. [71] Speer and Sauckel cooperated closely to meet Speer's labor demands. Speer's books were a success; the public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich. [43] The Schutzstaffel (SS) built two concentration camps in 1938 and used the inmates to quarry stone for its construction. [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. [137], Speer's release from prison was a worldwide media event. Having served his full term, Speer was released in 1966. [147], Speer made himself widely available to historians and other enquirers. [38] The outbreak of World War II in 1939 led to the postponement, and later the abandonment, of these plans. [39], Plans to build a new Reich chancellery had been underway since 1934. [138] He said little, reserving most comments for a major interview published in Der Spiegel in November 1966. Inside the Third Reich: Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. Adam Tooze wrote in The Wages of Destruction that the idea that Speer was an apolitical technocrat was "absurd". Albert Speer, Germany Architect. [41] He completed the preliminary work for the new chancellery by May 1936. [26], The image of the good Nazi was supported by numerous Speer myths. The houses still look very much the same. Albert Speer Jr. was born on July 29, 1934, one year after Hitler had consolidated power in Germany. 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. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. His father, the son and grandson of architects, had joined the Nazi party in 1931 and soon . "[118], Speer was credited with an "armaments miracle". Speer was aided in shaping the works by Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler from the publishing house Ullstein. A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler's (Sir Derek Jacobi's) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Those who feigned illness, slacked off, sabotaged production or tried to escape were denied food or sent to concentration camps. [125] He had completed his memoirs by November 1953, which became the basis of Inside the Third Reich. all Albert Speer wanted was to feel important. [23][24], In the English version of his memoirs, Speer says that his political commitment merely consisted of paying his "monthly dues". Albert Speer, nemki arhitekt in politik, * 19. marec 1905, Mannheim, 1. september 1981, London, Zdrueno kraljestvo . I presumably had a sense of somber events. First Architect of the Third Reich. On 20 July 1942, Speer was enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of. [11] As such, Speer taught some of his classes while continuing his own postgraduate studies. 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). If built, the German Stadium would have accommodated 400,000 spectators. Sauckel had whole villages in France, Holland and Belgium forcibly rounded up and shipped to Speer's factories. Oil production became so low that any possibility of offensive action became impossible and weaponry lay idle. The book was a worn, thick burgundy paperback, spine splintered in three parts, tiny print . Albert Speer was a young architect initially seduced by the speeches and rhetoric of Hitler. [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". albert speers younger brother ernst was killed at Stalingrad He fabricated the additional details. Post [10] After passing his exams in 1927, Speer became Tessenow's assistant, a high honor for a man of 22. shelved 32,158 times. "It is not charity; I don't like that . By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Speer in response used his propaganda expertise to display a new dynamism of the war economy. When the commission was completed, Speer returned to Mannheim and remained there as Hitler took office in January1933. [126] In Spandau Diaries, Speer aimed to present himself as a tragic hero who had made a Faustian bargain for which he endured a harsh prison sentence. Sept. 21, 2017. The large capital investment was not repaid in military effectiveness. [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. Hitler's cabinet was dismayed at his tactics, but, regardless, he was able to accumulate new responsibilities and more power. Speer with his children Albert and Hilde, front, and Margret, Arnold and Fritz, back. But the children-my two brothers and I-had to use the back stairs. 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 . Speer's father ran one of the more prosperous architecture firms in the area. [174] Heinrich Breloer, discussing the construction of Auschwitz, said Speer was not just a cog in the workhe was the "terror itself". Das Cytoskelett; Vergleich Pflanzenzelle - Tierzelle: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten; Vergleich der Eigenschaften von prokaryotischen und eukaryotischen Zellen Speer was loyal to Hitler, and his experience building prisoner of war camps and other structures for the military qualified him for the job. [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. At the end of 1933, he contracted Paul Troost to renovate the entire building. "[3], On the other hand, in a 1973 Bryn Mawr College review, Barbara Miller Lane wrote, "Scholars have observed so many gaps in his account of the operation of his ministry as to shed considerable doubt on the whole. Once Speer became aware of the existence of the fund, he sent detailed instructions about what to do with the money. [59] Speer proved to be ambitious, unrelenting and ruthless. [86] On 1 August 1944, Speer merged the Fighter Staff into a newly formed Armament Staff committee. 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." [81] He was under the dubious care of Professor Karl Gebhardt at a medical clinic called Hohenlychen where patients "mysteriously failed to survive". Speer (Albert Speer's brother) and his life. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. 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[177] The rational position to adopt was to seek a political solution that would end the war without defeat. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials . [26] Brechtken added that, throughout Speer's life, his central motives were to gain power, rule, and acquire wealth. Speer liked the scenario so much that he wrote it into his memoirs. Finally, in the summer of 1943, Speer released the 1200 metric tons of uranium stock for use in solid-core ammunition. 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. As an example, he wanted to be given power over all armaments issues under Hermann Gring's Four Year Plan. [96] In January 1945, Speer told Goebbels that armaments production could be sustained for at least a year. Yet each showed comparable increases in production despite not being under Speer's control. [14] The couple would have six children together, but Albert Speer grew increasingly distant from his family after 1933. One thing that happened in early 1840 of Victoria time was that A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II. 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). Speer died of a stroke in 1981. The complicated architecture of Albert Speer, Jr. From being the son of a Nazi to becoming one of the world's foremost architects, this 82-year-old urban planner has been on top of the German planning world for more than half a century. [120], On 18 July 1947, Speer was transferred to Spandau Prison in Berlin to serve his prison term. [66], As Minister of Armaments, Speer was responsible for supplying weapons to the army. Contributor: C. Peter Chen ww2dbase Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was born in Mannheim, Germany, into a wealthy middle class family to Albert and Luise Speer. Speer asked Wolters to destroy the material he had omitted from his donation but Wolters refused and retained an original copy. [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. In this capacity he was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes in Berlin. Hitler commissioned him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. [89] To increase production, Speer introduced a system of punishments for his workforce. Martin Kitchen, a British historian, says that the choice was not surprising. There's a small road going to the right. [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. [82] In mid-January 1944, Speer had a lung embolism and fell seriously ill. Today: Still there. [37] Speer hired Wolters as part of his design team, with special responsibility for the Prachtstrasse. This led to the development of Germany's first cyclotron. [100] Speer gained control over the railways in February, and asked Heinrich Himmler to supply concentration camp prisoners to work on their repair. [30] Nuremberg was the site of many official Nazi buildings. [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. Reporters and photographers crowded both the street outside Spandau and the lobby of the Hotel Berlin where Speer spent the night. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. 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". Speer was able to have his writings sent to Wolters, however, and they eventually amounted to 20,000 pages. 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. [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. Men da Moritz Schramm var barn, var det et andet blik, han havde p morfaren. Himself widely available to historians and other enquirers Marvin J. Chomsky be,. 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