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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ ʃ p ɛər /; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ⓘ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in ...
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 .
Albert Speer, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, was tasked with carrying out the order but refused, seeing it as a senseless act of destruction. The decree was in vain. The responsibility for carrying it out fell to Albert Speer , Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production .
One of his better known statues is Die Partei, representing the spirit of the Nazi Party that flanked one side of the carriage entrance to Albert Speer's new Reich Chancellery. After the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 Breker continued to thrive professionally as a sculptor in the new West Germany. [1]
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.
Albert Speer (1942–1945), Minister of Armaments and Munitions Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt] ) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt , an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party .
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Albert Speer: 5: Served a 20-year sentence; released on 1 October 1966. 19 March 1905: 1 September 1981: 76 Walther Funk: 6: Released due to ill health on 16 May 1957 after receiving a life sentence. 18 August 1890: 31 May 1960: 69 Rudolf Hess: 7: Committed suicide by hanging on 17 August 1987 while serving a life sentence. 26 April 1894: 17 ...