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Speer's grave in Heidelberg. Speer made himself widely available to historians and other enquirers. [152] In October 1973, he made his first trip to Britain, flying to London to be interviewed on the BBC Midweek programme. [153] In the same year, he appeared on the television programme The World at War.
Albert Speer (German pronunciation: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯]; 29 July 1934 – 15 September 2017) was a German architect and urban planner. He was the son of Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler 's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany during World War II .
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Designed by architect Albert Speer, it consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights, at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience. The Cathedral of Light was documented in the Nazi propaganda film Festliches Nürnberg , released in 1937.
The arch as conceived by Speer could only have been built after considerable prior stabilization of the ground. The cylinder itself was never initially intended by Hitler or Speer to be destroyed, but to be subsequently buried under a new road. [7] Interrupted by the war, these plans never came to fruition. Construction in 1941
Ten-year-old Harald Quandt (in DJ-uniform) at his mother's wedding with Joseph Goebbels.Hitler, who acted as a witness, can be seen in the background. Magda and Günther Quandt were married on 4 January 1921, and her first child, Harald Quandt, was born on 1 November 1921. [4]
Albert Speer, the "first architect of the Third Reich", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realised between the years 1938 and 1943.
Arno Breker modelling a portrait of Albert Speer in 1940 Arno Breker's Grave in Düsseldorf Bust of Richard Wagner in Bayreuth Baron von Mirbach, 1920 Friedrich Ebert , Berlin 1924 (first state commission)