Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
Albert Speer: I: I: G: G 20 years Hitler's friend, favorite architect, and Minister of Armaments from 1942 until the end of the war. In this capacity, he was ultimately responsible for the use of slave laborers from the occupied territories in armaments production.
Speer Goes To Hollywood is based on forty hours of recorded conversations between screenwriter Andrew Birkin and Albert Speer, an architect and close ally of Adolf Hitler who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production of Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1945.
This used Jewish forced labourers who were partly exempted from being deported to their extermination until 1943. After 1945, Speer always maintained that he left the conference before Himmler made his speech and knew nothing of the Holocaust. Historians cite Himmler's direct second-person reference to Speer as proof of his presence. [23]
Albert Speer: March 19, 1905: September 1, 1981: 76 years, 166 days Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production denied any involvement of knowledge of the Holocaust, letters found after his death proved he was aware amongst other crimes Sentenced to 20 years of prison at the Nuremberg trials. It is believed he lied to get a softer sentence.
The largest buyer of Flossenbürg granite was Albert Speer's office for the reconstruction of Berlin. [25] Within this project the largest and most significant orders were for Wilhelm Kreis' Soldiers' Hall (Soldatenhalle) project, beginning in 1940. Increasing amounts of stone were used for road building; 15% in 1939 but 60% the next year. [26]
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.