Speer went on to quote Hitler as telling him privately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, "We will create a great empire. Speer was appalled by this order, and persuaded several key military and political leaders to ignore it. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, principally for the use of slave labor, narrowly avoiding a death sentence. Das Cytoskelett; Vergleich Pflanzenzelle - Tierzelle: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten; Vergleich der Eigenschaften von prokaryotischen und eukaryotischen Zellen [90] By this time, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories. This led to a significant German Army failure at the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major turning point on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Red Army. [68] Hitler was closely involved with the design of the tanks, but kept changing his mind about the specifications. Instead, development turned to a "uranium motor", for use in the navy's submarines. Albert was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. 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. Speer's illness coincided with the Allied "Big Week", a series of bombing raids on the German aircraft factories that were a devastating blow to aircraft production. [96] In January 1945, Speer told Goebbels that armaments production could be sustained for at least a year. never got along so good before or after. happened. Ultimately, when their emergence involved the ruin of all his work, Speer accepted the consequences and acted. It began in 1932 but had not supplied any weaponry. [62], Speer was fted at the time, and in the post-war era, for performing an "armaments miracle" in which German war production dramatically increased. [15], In January 1931, Speer applied for Nazi Party membership, and on 1 March 1931, he became member number 474,481. At the end of July 1942, a lack of fuel brought Paulus to a halt at Kalach. In 1944, this became endemic; over half a million workers were arrested. [59] Speer proved to be ambitious, unrelenting and ruthless. . [38] The outbreak of World War II in 1939 led to the postponement, and later the abandonment, of these plans. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. August 1, 2017. Speer states he became hopeful when Hitler explained how communism could be checked and Germany could recover economically. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. There were so many corpses at the Dora underground factory, for example, that the crematorium was overwhelmed. After the disasters of the battle of Moscow (Operation Typhoon) and even after Stalingrad Germany manages to greatly increase its military production, even though the allies were launching a major bombing campaign against them. [12] In Munich Speer began a close friendship, ultimately spanning over 50 years, with Rudolf Wolters, who also studied under Tessenow. [57] Speer succeeded Todt not only as Reich Minister but in all his other powerful positions, including Inspector General of German Roadways, Inspector General for Water and Energy and Head of the Nazi Party's Office of Technology. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials . He assumed his German readers would not be so gullible and told them the Nazi Party offered a "new mission". [29] Speer insisted that as many events as possible be held at night, both to give greater prominence to his lighting effects and to hide the overweight Nazis. The idea for this myth came to him after he recalled the panic when car fumes came through an air ventilation system. He used his writings from the time of imprisonment as the basis for two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. [7], Speer began his architectural studies at the University of Karlsruhe instead of a more highly acclaimed institution because the hyperinflation crisis of 1923 limited his parents' income. [84] Production of German fighter aircraft more than doubled between 1943 and 1944. 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. Speer cancelled some hours before take-off because the previous night he had been up late in a meeting with Hitler. He had claimed that he was unaware of Nazi extermination plans, and the Allies had no proof that he was aware. This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. [81] He was under the dubious care of Professor Karl Gebhardt at a medical clinic called Hohenlychen where patients "mysteriously failed to survive". After his release on 1 October 1966, he used Federal Archive documents to rework the material into his autobiography. [54], In 1941, Speer was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 2 (Berlin-West). The Speer houses are on the right side. Thanks! Post "[142] He supported Hermann, his brother, financially after the war. [28], One of Speer's first commissions after Troost's death was the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg. [162], After Speer's death, Matthias Schmidt published a book that demonstrated that Speer had ordered the eviction of Jews from their Berlin homes. [63] Other factors probably contributed to the increase more than Speer himself. [165] Trommer said he was not an apolitical technocrat; instead, he was one of the most powerful and unscrupulous leaders in the Nazi regime. [9] In 1925, he transferred again, this time to the Technical University of Berlin where he studied under Heinrich Tessenow, whom Speer greatly admired. The relationship will always amaze. In his writings, Speer claimed to have finished five thousand books while in prison. The film presents original videos from the Nazi Germany period and conversations with Speer, in which the great deception he tried to present at the Nuremberg trials and in his book is revealed.[6]. The cylinder is now a protected landmark and is open to the public. Albert Speer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland", Francisco Boix identifies Speer at Nuremberg, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Speer&oldid=1139875005, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 08:56. This delayed the program, and Speer was unable to remedy the situation. [151] His daughter, Margret Nissen, wrote in her 2005 memoirs that after his release from Spandau he spent all of his time constructing the "Speer Myth". Progress was slow because fuel was rationed and Army Group A were given priority. It was only on the urgent advice of his publisher that he added a mention of seeing the ruins of the Central Synagogue in Berlin from his car. Oil production became so low that any possibility of offensive action became impossible and weaponry lay idle. Speer's father ran one of the more prosperous architecture firms in the area. Showing 28 distinct works. [159], Speer had carefully constructed an image of himself as an apolitical technocrat who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. [121] There he was known as Prisoner Number Five. Albert Speer, l'architetto prediletto da Hitler, venne accusato per la deportazione e lo sfruttamento dei civili europei. He was charged with planning for war, planning a war of aggression, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Feigned repentance at Nuremberg, saving his own neck. [149] In the same year, he appeared on the television programme The World at War. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Speer states that even if Germany concentrated all of its resources, it would have been 1947 before they could have had an atom bomb. It is primarily based on the memoirs of Gertraud "Traudl" Junge ( Alexandra Maria Lara ), one of Hitler's secretaries, and is one of the most accurate portrayals of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich and its effects on the Fhrer, his closest aides, and ordinary Germans. His formal title was changed on 2 September 1943, to "Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production". The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen ("Recollections") (Propylen/Ullstein, 1969), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1970 as Inside the Third Reich; then as Spandauer Tagebcher ("Spandau Diaries") (Propylen/Ullstein, 1975), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1976 as Spandau: The Secret Diaries. Speer (Albert Speer's brother) and his life. alberts side and was generally desribed as a wastrel. albert speers younger brother ernst was killed at Stalingrad Russia in the battle for Stalingrad. [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". 46.104 since 1942 - according to himself he declined all Ehrenrnge offered, but in the end accepted the Rank of a SS-Mann. [177] The rational position to adopt was to seek a political solution that would end the war without defeat. Speer's own staff described the conditions there as "hell". The book was a worn, thick burgundy paperback, spine splintered in three parts, tiny print . The journalist described an invented scenario in which Speer had refused Hitler's orders and Hitler had left with tears in his eyes. "[4] His brothers, Ernst and Hermann, bullied him throughout his childhood. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. [154] In his memoirs and interviews, he had distorted the truth and made so many major omissions that his lies became known as "myths". [147], Speer made himself widely available to historians and other enquirers. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. [69], As head of Organisation Todt, Speer was directly involved in the construction and alteration of concentration camps. Of the 60,000 people who ended up at the camp 20,000 died, due to the appalling conditions. Once Speer became aware of the existence of the fund, he sent detailed instructions about what to do with the money. They paid for Toni Proost to go on holiday, and for bribes to those who might be able to secure Speer's release. The battle is infamous as one of the largest . [64] Another factor that produced the boom in ammunition was the policy of allocating more coal to the steel industry. In response, Hitler appointed Fritz Sauckel as a "manpower dictator" to obtain new workers. From 1939 on, Speer's Department used the Nuremberg Laws to evict Jewish tenants of non-Jewish landlords in Berlin, to make way for non-Jewish tenants displaced by redevelopment or bombing. [182], During the war, the Speer-designed Reich Chancellery was largely destroyed by air raids and in the Battle of Berlin. Albert Speer (Mannheim, Nmetorszg, 1905. mrcius 19. [5] Speer was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. Albert Speer Jr., one of the most important German architects and urban planners, died unexpectedly on September 15, 2017 in Frankfurt. "[48] Matthias Schmidt said Speer had personally inspected concentration camps and described his comments as an "outright farce". [141] He found himself unable to re-establish a relationship with his children, even with his son Albert who had also become an architect. Ernst Speer. In the World War II, Hitler appointed him as the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany. This miracle was brought to a halt in the summer of 1943 by, among other factors, the first sustained Allied bombing. Albert Einstein lived in the USA, so was not where the holocaust [118] On 1 October 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. His father, who died in 1947, despised the Nazis and was silent upon meeting Hitler. I recommend this book without reservations. [82] In mid-January 1944, Speer had a lung embolism and fell seriously ill. [160] This construction was accepted almost at face value by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper when investigating the death of Adolf Hitler for British Intelligence and in writing The Last Days of Hitler. 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. The book also shows a photograph from 1943, of . [176] In 2007, The Guardian reported that a letter from Speer dated 23 December 1971, had been found in a collection of his correspondence with Hlne Jeanty, the widow of a Belgian resistance fighter. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. He agreed to expand Auschwitz and some other camps, allocating 13.7 million Reichsmarks for the work to be carried out. The designs were rushed into production, and the completed submarines were crippled by flaws which resulted from the way they had been constructed. During his life, he worked on redesigning city centers of . [105] Speer ended them, though the army continued to blow up bridges. [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". [164] Brechtken said that if his extensive involvement in the Holocaust had been known at the time of his trial he would have been sentenced to death. [155] Isabell Trommer writes in her biography of Speer that Fest and Siedler were co-authors of Speer's memoirs and co-creators of his myths. [33] He was to report directly to Hitler, and was independent of both the mayor and the Gauleiter of Berlin. "[115] Speer's attorney, Hans Flchsner, successfully contrasted Speer from other defendants[116] and portrayed him as an artist thrust into political life who had always remained a non-ideologue. Supposing politics to be irrelevant, he turned aside and built roads and bridges and factories, while the logical consequences of government by madmen emerged. He added a stone exterior that pleased Hitler. Sept. 21, 2017. It was used for Nazi propaganda rallies and can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will. [77] By July 1943, he had gained control of armaments production for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for the Holocaust. [168] Speer also falsely claimed that he had realised the war was lost at an early stage, and thereafter worked to preserve the resources needed for the civilian population's survival. He fabricated the additional details. But the children-my two brothers and I-had to use the back stairs. [179], Little remains of Speer's personal architectural works, other than the plans and photographs. Concerned about retaining power, he did not appoint a deputy and continued to direct work of the Armaments Ministry from his bedside. The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. [5], Another kind of criticism is the claim that Speer pretended that he was unaware of the extermination camps and presented the figure of a "good Nazi". The Soviet Union, having demanded a death sentence at trial, was unwilling to entertain a reduced sentence. 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. [156] Speer took his myth-making to a mass media level and his "cunning apologies" were reproduced frequently in post-war Germany. In this capacity he was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes in Berlin. As a Nazi Party member, she had greatly enjoyed dining with Hitler. The concrete cylinder, 14 metres (46ft) high, was used to measure ground subsidence as part of feasibility studies for a massive triumphal arch and other large structures planned within Hitler's post-war renewal project for the city of Berlin as the world capital Germania. Speer was to be replaced by his subordinate, Karl-Otto Saur. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. By July 1943 Speer's armaments propaganda became irrelevant because a catalogue of dramatic defeats on the battlefield meant the prospect of losing the war could no longer be hidden from the German public. The building was able to hold 340,000 people. Brother of Hermann Speer and Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer. Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. Gring was reluctant to grant this. [55] On 8 February 1942, Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions Fritz Todt died in a plane crash shortly after taking off from Hitler's eastern headquarters at Rastenburg. House Albert Speer (4) Location: Take the road in front of the Gutshof back uphill to the Berghof. He set about extending his power and influence with unexpected ambition. [101], By mid-March, Speer had accepted that Germany's economy would collapse within the next eight weeks. For the television film based on the book, see, :55,71,7879,83,105,115116,138,188,651,674,696, Sarah Word from the British film magazine ", Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inside_the_Third_Reich&oldid=1132240858, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 23:15. [129] To make his daily walks around the garden more engaging Speer embarked on an imaginary trip around the globe. Speer did not act on the request until mid-January 1943. His sister's name was Carrie. The public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich and a major war criminal became a popular figure almost overnight. [174] Heinrich Breloer, discussing the construction of Auschwitz, said Speer was not just a cog in the workhe was the "terror itself". [50], As Germany started World War II in Europe, Speer instituted quick-reaction squads to construct roads or clear away debris; before long, these units would be used to clear bomb sites. He had walked more than 30,000 kilometres (19,000mi), ending his sentence near Guadalajara, Mexico. sort by. With Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell, Blythe Danner. Men da Moritz Schramm var barn, var det et andet blik, han havde p morfaren. [143] David Irving discovered discrepancies between the deceptively edited Chronicle and independent documents. 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. [181] The tribune of the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, though partly demolished, can also be seen. [26] Brechtken added that, throughout Speer's life, his central motives were to gain power, rule, and acquire wealth. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ( Mannheim, 19. oujka 1905. . [87], The Fighter Staff committee was instrumental in bringing about the increased exploitation of slave labor in the war economy. Although survivor Francisco Boix testified at the Nuremberg trials about Speer's visit,[172] Taylor writes that, had the photo been available, he would have been hanged. Then it was too late; Germany had been destroyed. He was acquitted on the other two counts. [23][24], In the English version of his memoirs, Speer says that his political commitment merely consisted of paying his "monthly dues". [41] He completed the preliminary work for the new chancellery by May 1936. Secured early release from prison, became a media celebrity and successfully cultivated the "clean Speer" myth. The program while advanced proved to be an impediment to the war economy. [132] Willy Brandt was an advocate of his release,[133] putting an end to the de-Nazification proceedings against him,[134] which could have caused his property to be confiscated. Beginning in 1948, Speer had the services of Toni Proost, a sympathetic Dutch orderly to smuggle mail and his writings. [177], The armaments "miracle" was a myth; Speer had used statistical manipulation to support his claims. BERLIN When Hilde Schramm inherited several paintings collected by her father, Hitler's chief architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer, she was only sure of one thing: she did not want. von Speer, Albert: und eine groe Auswahl hnlicher Bcher, Kunst und Sammlerstcke erhltlich auf AbeBooks.de. [89] To increase production, Speer introduced a system of punishments for his workforce. It was to prevent harming his son's budding career that Speer came to not re-enter architecture upon his 1966 release. Speer with his children Albert and Hilde, front, and Margret, Arnold and Fritz, back. 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 When asked by his Allied captors in 1945 to what extent German military strategy had been influenced by economic considerations, Albert Speer, Hitler's armaments minister, replied that in the case of OperationBarbarossathe need for oil was certainly a prime motive. Indeed, even during initial discussions of his plan to invade the Soviet Union, Hitler had stressed the absolute necessity of . Speer was able to have his writings sent to Wolters, however, and they eventually amounted to 20,000 pages. [157] In return they were paid handsomely in royalties and other financial inducements. [81], In response to the Allied Big Week, Adolf Hitler authorized the creation of a Fighter Staff committee. In June 1936 he charged a personal honorarium of 30,000 Reichsmark and estimated the chancellery would be completed within three to four years. - London, 1. rujna 1981.) "It is not charity; I don't like that . After he failed to do so, his father gave him a part-time job as manager of his properties. [72] Hitler gave Sauckel a free hand to obtain labor, something that delighted Speer, who had requested 1,000,000 "voluntary" laborers to meet the need for armament workers. 1971. At the end of 1933, he contracted Paul Troost to renovate the entire building. He also cites the use of the V-2 as a terror weapon, rather than continued development of the ground-to-air defensive Waterfall rocket. For Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, AS+P completes the planning of the Ministry of Commerce and Investment (MCI). Albert Speer (n.Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, 19 martie 1905 d. 1 septembrie 1981) a fost un arhitect german care a fost, pentru o parte din al Doilea Rzboi Mondial, ministrul al narmrii i produciei de rzboi pentru al Treilea Reich.Speer a fost arhitectul preferat al lui Adolf Hitler, nainte de a ocupa posturi ministeriale.i-a asumat responsabilitatea pentru crimele . Victoria married. [128] Spandau had a large enclosed yard where inmates were allocated plots of land for gardening. Before World War II, Speer helped propel the Nazi vision of grandeur and superiority. Most days he was invited to dinner. Speer was aided in shaping the works by Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler from the publishing house Ullstein. [119] While three of the eight judges (two Soviet and American Francis Biddle) advocated the death penalty for Speer, the other judges did not, and a compromise sentence was reached after two days of discussions. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the benefit of the German war effort. "[4] Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion. Unsubstantiated rumors have claimed that the remains were used for other building projects such as the Humboldt University, Mohrenstrae metro station and Soviet war memorials in Berlin. [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. 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. [95], Losses of territory and a dramatic expansion of the Allied strategic bombing campaign caused the collapse of the German economy from late 1944. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. This led to the development of Germany's first cyclotron. Using misleading statistics, he promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was widely credited with keeping Germany in the war. Mr. Speer had been taken to the . Inventing for Speer the post of General Inspector of Buildings, Hitler steadily promoted him to the point where other Nazi leaders and rivals believed that he might well become Hitler's successor. His first draft was written from March 1953 to 26 December 1954. Albert Speer was a close confidant of Hitler, and the Third Reich's most celebrated architect. Martin Kitchen, writing in Speer: Hitler's Architect, stated that much of the increase in Germany's arms production was actually due to systems instituted by Speer's predecessor (Fritz Todt) and furthermore that Speer was intimately involved in the "Final Solution". First Architect of the Third Reich. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. By Dorothy . [14] The couple would have six children together, but Albert Speer grew increasingly distant from his family after 1933. [32], On 30 January 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital. [66], As Minister of Armaments, Speer was responsible for supplying weapons to the army. I was searching for information about Ernst (?) [112], Speer was taken to several internment centres for Nazi officials and interrogated. Yet development and production would take at least two years. [45] Kristallnacht accelerated Speer's ongoing efforts to dispossess Berlin's Jews from their homes. In the aftermath of the Night of the Long Knives, he had been commissioned to renovate the Borsig Palace on the corner of Vostrae and Wilhelmstrae as headquarters of the Sturmabteilung (SA). An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. [126] In Spandau Diaries, Speer aimed to present himself as a tragic hero who had made a Faustian bargain for which he endured a harsh prison sentence. 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). The Fhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpetgnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped concepts endowed with an ineffable personal magic. 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. [73] Sauckel obtained new workers often using the most brutal methods. At the southern end of the avenue, a great triumphal arch, almost 400 feet (120m) high and able to fit the Arc de Triomphe inside its opening, was planned. - Han var ikke sdan en morfar, man sad p skdet af, og . [131], Speer's supporters maintained calls for his release. I'd like to know more about his life; all I know is that he was inside Stalingrad's. [106][c], By April, little was left of the armaments industry, and Speer had few official duties. Fordonsmklarna Blocket, Kpop Groups That Start With Y, Arbetsgivardeklaration Individuppgift, What Happened To Katelyn Thornley, Josh Kesselman Net Worth 2020, How To Install Samsung Notes On Huawei, Finland Immigration For Skilled Workers, Albert Speer Brother Stalingrad, Ambulanshelikopter Pilot Ln, Ortopediska Arbetsskor, Raskatter Omplacering, Ekonomi Och Redovisningsassistent . Figlio e nipote di architetti, Spee. Though stockpiling of materials and other work continued, this slowed to a halt as more resources were needed for the armament industry. This article is about the book. [88] The SS provided 64,000 prisoners for 20 separate projects from various concentration camps including Mittelbau-Dora. sent during this battle. Before that, Speer worked as the chief architect in Hitler's Nazi . Through his autobiographies and interviews, Speer carefully constructed an image of himself as a man who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. It had been edited by Wolters and made no mention of the Jews. He had become one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. [153] He was well-educated, middle class, and bourgeois, and could contrast himself with those who, in the popular mind, typified "bad Nazis". [8] In 1924, when the crisis had abated, he transferred to the "much more reputable" Technical University of Munich. 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