Little remains of his personal architectural work. Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Speer died of a stroke in 1981. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name. Figlio e nipote di architetti, Spee. For propaganda Hitler claimed during the topping-out ceremony on 2 August 1938, that he had ordered Speer to complete the new chancellery that year. He spent the rest of his life attempting to enhance this image and erase any doubt that he did not participate or know about the Nazi atrocities. The second season of the PBS series looks at Hitler's planning and the battle that would ultimately cripple the Third Reich. 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. From 1946 to 1966, while serving the sentence in Spandau Prison, he penned more than 2,000 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Victoria married. Speer was formally arrested on May 23rd. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". If built, the German Stadium would have accommodated 400,000 spectators. [84] Production of German fighter aircraft more than doubled between 1943 and 1944. They're private residences. Despite his opposition to the 20 July plot, he falsely claimed in his memoirs to have been sympathetic to the plotters. 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 cancelled some hours before take-off because the previous night he had been up late in a meeting with Hitler. [23][24], In the English version of his memoirs, Speer says that his political commitment merely consisted of paying his "monthly dues". Speer's own staff described the conditions there as "hell". Having served his full term, Speer was released in 1966. like so many other Germans his body was never found or returned to . [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. German architect of the Nazi period (1933-45). Efforts were made and a search of Ernst's unit ended in failure. "[118], Speer was credited with an "armaments miracle". [95], Losses of territory and a dramatic expansion of the Allied strategic bombing campaign caused the collapse of the German economy from late 1944. [32], On 30 January 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital. After the war, Speer was among the 24 "major war criminals" arrested and charged with the crimes of the Nazi regime at the Nuremberg trials. [5], Following his release from Spandau, Speer donated the Chronicle, his personal diary, to the German Federal Archives. [97] However, he concluded that the war was lost after Soviet forces captured the important Silesian industrial region later that month. [34] Hitler ordered Speer to develop plans to rebuild Berlin. This ignored military realities, as the German armed forces were unable to match the Allies' firepower and were facing total defeat. [39], Plans to build a new Reich chancellery had been underway since 1934. [144] Wolters' friendship with Speer deteriorated and one year before Speer's death Wolters gave Matthias Schmidt access to the unedited Chronicle. Included in the building works was material to build gas chambers, crematoria and morgues. If Speer, who had been so close to Hitler, had not known the full extent of the crimes of the Nazi regime and had just been "following orders", then they could tell themselves and others they too had done the same. He had become one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. Na Nrnberkom procesu preuzeo je moralnu odgovornost za svoja djela te je priznao ignorantnost po pitanju Holokausta. Albert Speer (Mannheim, Nmetorszg, 1905. mrcius 19. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ( Mannheim, 19. oujka 1905. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. Minister for Armaments. [164] Even so, public perceptions of Speer did not change substantially until Heinrich Breloer aired a biographical film on TV in 2004. Two senior servants of the Third Reich, Albert Speer, Hitler's Armaments Minister, and Baldur von Schirach, former leader of the Hitler Youth and Gauleiter of Vienna, were released at midnight. An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post [51] Speer used forced Jewish labor on these projects, in addition to regular German workers. [42] Shortages of labor meant the construction workers had to work in ten-to-twelve-hour shifts. . Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who became Minister of Armaments and War Production in World War II, died today at St. Mary's Hospital. [149] In the same year, he appeared on the television programme The World at War. [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. After one of these briefings, Hitler invited Speer to lunch, to the architect's great excitement. He took a role in that short-lived regime as Minister of Industry and Production. 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. Albert Speer Jr., one of the most important German architects and urban planners, died unexpectedly on September 15, 2017 in Frankfurt. Albert Speer (fdt Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer den 19. marts 1905 i Mannheim, dd 1. september 1981 i London) var en tysk arkitekt, der under 2. verdenskrig var rustningsminister (Reichsminister fr Bewaffnung und Munition) i Nazi-Tyskland.Lnge inden ministerudnvnelsen havde Speer vret Adolf Hitlers foretrukne arkitekt.. Speer blev medlem af nazistpartiet i 1931. William. The houses still look very much the same. [135] Speer's efforts for an early release came to naught. Fun facts: before fame, family life, popularity rankings, and more. never got along so good before or after. Speer's full length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. 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. by punktlich02 29 Oct 2009, 11:35, Return to The Dieter Zinke Axis Biographical Research Section. [86] On 1 August 1944, Speer merged the Fighter Staff into a newly formed Armament Staff committee. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (German: [pe] ( 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 first heard Adolf Hitler speak during an address to the combined students and faculty of Berlin University and his institute. Another myth posits that Speer revolutionized the German war machine after his appointment as Minister of Armaments. The public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich and a major war criminal became a popular figure almost overnight. At the end of 1933, he contracted Paul Troost to renovate the entire building. This carried with it the rank of State Secretary in the Reich government and gave him extraordinary powers over the Berlin city government. All of the Germanic peoples will be included in it. [69], As head of Organisation Todt, Speer was directly involved in the construction and alteration of concentration camps. [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". shelved 32,158 times. In 1942, he was named Minister of Armaments and Munitions, assuming significant responsibility for the German war economy. . One of Speer's grandfathers was among the most successful machine-tool manufacturers in Germany; the other was a well-known architect. [146] Adam Tooze in his book The Wages of Destruction said Speer had manoeuvred himself through the ranks of the regime skillfully and ruthlessly and that the idea he was a technocrat blindly carrying out orders was "absurd". Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. With Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell, Blythe Danner. [26], The image of the good Nazi was supported by numerous Speer myths. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. In 1918, moved to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany. 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. 1971. After he failed to do so, his father gave him a part-time job as manager of his properties. Speer II is more than an urban planner. Oil production became so low that any possibility of offensive action became impossible and weaponry lay idle. The family learned of this through some letters Ernst sent. Son of Albert Friedrich Speer and Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) Speer. The designs were rushed into production, and the completed submarines were crippled by flaws which resulted from the way they had been constructed. The large capital investment was not repaid in military effectiveness. [71] Speer and Sauckel cooperated closely to meet Speer's labor demands. [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 is one of Germany's top architects. 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. After August 1944, oil from the Romanian fields was no longer available. I knew that these must be Berlin Jews who were being evacuated. Speer's desperate mother called Speer . 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. Rereading Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich". [43] The Schutzstaffel (SS) built two concentration camps in 1938 and used the inmates to quarry stone for its construction. [80], In December 1943, Speer visited Organisation Todt workers in Lapland, while there he seriously damaged his knee and was incapacitated for several months. [124], The prisoners were forbidden to write memoirs. [138] He said little, reserving most comments for a major interview published in Der Spiegel in November 1966. [104] During a meeting with Speer on 28/29 March, Hitler rescinded the decree and gave him authority over demolitions. Those who feigned illness, slacked off, sabotaged production or tried to escape were denied food or sent to concentration camps. Yet each showed comparable increases in production despite not being under Speer's control. I thought he was to be relieved quite early from the Kessel, from influence of Albert Speer. [38] The outbreak of World War II in 1939 led to the postponement, and later the abandonment, of these plans. Progress was slow because fuel was rationed and Army Group A were given priority. all Albert Speer wanted was to feel important. [122] Speer's parents died while he was incarcerated. Speer was appalled by this order, and persuaded several key military and political leaders to ignore it. In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. [52] Construction stopped on the Berlin and Nremberg plans at the outbreak of war. In September 1945, he was told that he would be tried for war crimes, and several days later, he was moved to Nuremberg and incarcerated there. Hitler appointed Speer as head of the Chief Office for Construction, which placed him nominally on Hess's staff. Carefully measuring distance travelled each day, he mapped distances to the real-world geography. Most days he was invited to dinner. letters that exist between ernst and the parents which he wrote and [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. In the summer of 1942 Paulus advanced toward Stalingrad with 250,000 men, 500 tanks, 7,000 guns and mortars, and 25,000 horses. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. Among those who pledged support for his sentence to be commuted were Charles de Gaulle and US diplomat George Wildman Ball. By Dorothy . Once Speer became aware of the existence of the fund, he sent detailed instructions about what to do with the money. His sister's name was Carrie. 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). Hitler's cabinet was dismayed at his tactics, but, regardless, he was able to accumulate new responsibilities and more power. Albert Speer, Germany Architect. [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. 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 Speer made no mention of it in the first draft of Inside the Third Reich. 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