Hitler's architect Albert Speer died 30 years ago

London - Hitler's architect and later Minister of Armaments Albert Speer, who died 30 years ago on September 1, 1981, tried to create an image of a so-called decent Nazi after the fall of the Third Reich. This was supposed to be achieved through his verbal condemnation of Hitler during the Nuremberg Trials, expressions of some remorse, and especially his memoirs published after his release from Spandau prison. However, according to recent findings by historians, the driving force behind Speer was boundless egotism, opportunism, and an obsession with property and power.
     Born in Mannheim, Speer, who was commissioned by Hitler to work on the concept of new Germania, a utopian construction for the capital of the new Reich, according to historians extended World War II by several months thanks to his managerial skills in his role as Minister of Armaments (1942-1945). A close friend of Adolf Hitler always concealed any knowledge of the extermination machinery of the Holocaust, but historians have disproved this.
     Unlike most other top figures of the Nazi dictatorship who received the death penalty during the Nuremberg Trials, Speer escaped with only 20 years in prison (for war crimes and crimes against humanity) due to his chosen tactics (a decent man led astray by power). He was released on October 1, 1966, and three years later Speer’s book entitled Memories was published.

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