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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (German: [??pe???] (13px 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. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime. His level of involvement in the persecution of the Jews and his level of knowledge of the Holocaust remain matters of dispute.Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931, launching him on a political and governmental career which lasted fourteen years. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler instructed him to design and construct a number of structures, including the Reich Chancellery and the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg where Party rallies were held. Speer also made plans to reconstruct Berlin on a grand scale, with huge buildings, wide boulevards, and a reorganized transportation system.In February 1942, Hitler appointed Speer Minister of Armaments and War Production. Under his leadership, Germany's war production continued to increase despite considerable Allied bombing. After the war, he was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the Nazi regime, principally for the use of forced labor. He served his full sentence, most of it at Spandau Prison in West Berlin.Following his release from Spandau in 1966, Speer published two bestselling autobiographical works, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries, detailing his often close personal relationship with Hitler, and providing readers and historians with a unique perspective on the workings of the Nazi regime. He later wrote a third book, Infiltration, about the SS. Speer died of natural causes in 1981 while on a visit to London.
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| 1 | [January 30, 1964] Thirty-one years ago today Hitler took power ... a few months later I met Hitler by chance. And from that moment on everything changed; my whole life was lived under a kind of high tension. Strange, how quickly I gave up everything that had been important to me up to then: private life with my family, my leanings, my principles of architecture. Yet I never had the feeling I was making a break, let alone betraying anything I cherished; rather the feeling was one of liberation and intensification, as though only then was I coming to my proper self. In the following period Hitler accorded me many triumphs, acquaintanceship with power and fame - but he also destroyed everything for me. Not only a life work as an architect and my good name, but above all my moral integrity. Condemned as a war criminal, robbed of my freedom for half a lifetime, and burdened with the permanent sense of guilt, I must in addition live in the awareness that I founded my whole existence on an error. ... So then I ask myself: would I like to fall out of history? What does a place in it mean to me, slight though it may be? If thirty-one years ago today I had been confronted with the choice of leading a quiet and respected life as city engineer of Augsburg or Gottingen, with a house in the suburbs, two or three decent buildings done a year, and vacations with the family in Hahnenklee or Norderney - if I had been offered all that or else everything that has happened, the fame and the guilt, the world capital and Spandau, together with the feeling of a life gone awry - which would I choose? Would I be prepared to pay the price all over again? My head reels when I pose this question. I scarcely dare to ask it. Certainly I cannot answer it at all. |
| 2 | [May 4, 1965] Recently, in these days full of memories, I have considered how I would characterize Hitler today after the passage of twenty years. I think I am now less sure than I ever was. All reflection magnifies the difficulties, makes him more incomprehensible. Of course I have no doubts at all about the judgment of history. But I would not know how to describe the man himself. No doubt I could say that he was cruel, unjust, unapproachable, cold, capricious, self-pitying, and vulgar; and in fact he was all of those things. But at the same time he was also the exact opposite of almost all those things. He could be a solicitous paterfamilias, a generous superior, amiable, self-controlled, proud, and capable of enthusiasm for beauty and greatness. I can think of only two concepts that include all his character traits and that are the common denominator of all those many contradictory aspects: opaqueness and dishonesty. Today, in retrospect, I am completely uncertain when and where he was ever really himself, his image not distorted by playacting, tactical considerations, joy in lying. I could not even say what his feeling toward me actually was - whether he really liked me or merely thought how useful I could be to him. |
| 3 | [November 30, 1952] Whatever turn my life takes in the future, whenever my name is mentioned, people will think of Hitler. I shall never have an independent existence. And sometimes I see myself as a man of seventy, children long since adult and grandchildren growing up, and wherever I go people will not ask about me but about Hitler. |
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| 1 | A letter he wrote in December 1971 confirmed he had known about the Holocaust during World War II. The letter was not discovered until after his death. |
| 2 | Father-in-law of Ingmar Zeisberg. |
| 3 | Is portrayed by Rutger Hauer in Inside the Third Reich (1982), Herbert Knaup in Nuremberg (2000), Heino Ferch in Downfall (2004) and Sebastian Koch in Speer und er (2005). |
| 4 | Was a friend of Leni Riefenstahl. |
| 5 | Was interviewed by "Playboy" magazine in 1971. |
| 6 | He was released from Spandau Prison in 1966, leaving Rudolf Hess as the only remaining inmate. He remained a prisoner there for another nineteen years, until he committed suicide on August 17, 1987 at the age of 93. |
| 7 | Speer claims (and there is some evidence to back it up) that after being given orders to implement "Operation Nero" (a plan to destroy everything of military, industrial or agricultural value in areas of Germany not overrun by the Allies) he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by introducing poison gas into the Berlin bunker. He failed due to both failed nerves and the placement of a strengthened filtering system. |
| 8 | He became Adolf Hitler's Minister for Armaments after being his favorite architect and designing many famous Reich buildings. At the 1945-1946 war-crimes trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities. Unlike his co-defendants, Speer readily accepted responsibility for crimes committed by a government in which he played a leading role. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Wie aus der Ferne | 2013 | Short letters | |
| Inside the Third Reich | 1982 | TV Movie book |
Art Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Der Sieg des Glaubens | 1933 | Documentary construction manager |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Nazi | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Arno Breker, Portrait eines Bildhauers | 1980 | Himself | |
| The Shock of the New | 1980 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The Memory of Justice | 1976 | Documentary | Himself |
| Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler | 1975 | TV Movie | Himself - Armaments Minister |
| The World at War | 1973-1974 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Minister of Armaments / Himself - Hitler's Armaments Minister / ... |
| Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin | 1972 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Der Architekt | 1969 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Nürnberg und seine Lehre | 1948 | Documentary | Himself |
| Nuremberg Trials | 1947 | Documentary | Himself |
| Der Sieg des Glaubens | 1933 | Documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
Known for movies
Der Architekt (1969)
as Himself
The Shock of the New (1980)
as Himself
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
as Writer
Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin (1972)
as Himself
