Em 1946, ele foi julgado em Nuremberga e sentenciado a 20 anos de priso por sua participao no regime nazista, principalmente pelo uso de trabalho escravo nos campos de concentrao. Importantly, he provided an alibi to older Germans who had been Nazis. Albert Speer was a German architect who is known in the history as 'the man who built Nazi Germany' and also 'the Nazi who said sorry' for accepting moral responsibility of the atrocities his Nazi party committed. Albert Speer ( 19. bezna 1905 Mannheim - 1. z 1981 Londn ), celm jmnem Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, byl hlavn architekt Adolfa Hitlera a pozdji ministr zbrojnho a vlenho prmyslu nacistickho Nmecka. When the commission was completed, Speer returned to Mannheim and remained there as Hitler took office in January1933. Nobody else in Hitler's circle, not even Josef Goebbels, was shown such favoritism. 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. There was no communication. Albert Speer (1905-1981) was a trained architect. FRANKFURT Albert Speer Jr., an internationally prominent architect who sought throughout his life to distance himself from the dark legacy of his father, a member of Adolf . After he failed to do so, his father gave him a part-time job as manager of his properties. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding . Speer believed his greatest work, the one that would truly stand the test of time was the Zeppelinfeld in Nrnberg, which held up to 340,000 people, and the Cathedral of Lights he orchestrated for nighttime Nazi rallies with 130 anti-aircraft searchlights placed around it. He coveted control of the production of armaments for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine as well. Adam Tooze wrote in The Wages of Destruction that the idea that Speer was an apolitical technocrat was "absurd". 4.10 avg rating 13,205 ratings published 1969 86 editions. [53] Speer's offices undertook building work for each branch of the military, and for the SS, using slave labor. 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. 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. It began in 1932 but had not supplied any weaponry. [105] Speer ended them, though the army continued to blow up bridges. like so many other Germans his body was never found or returned to . Speer died of a stroke in 1981. One of Speer's grandfathers was among the most successful machine-tool manufacturers in Germany; the other was a well-known architect. [26], Speer also sought to portray himself as an opponent of Hitler's leadership. Speer's books were a success; the public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich. He was 76 years old. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name. "[16] The historian Magnus Brechtken, discussing Speer, said he did not give anti-Jewish public speeches and that his anti-Semitism can best be understood through his actionswhich were anti-Semitic. These factories were death-traps; discipline was brutal, with regular executions. Among those who pledged support for his sentence to be commuted were Charles de Gaulle and US diplomat George Wildman Ball. In consequence, despite tank production having the highest priority, relatively little of the armaments budget was spent on it. [10] After passing his exams in 1927, Speer became Tessenow's assistant, a high honor for a man of 22. 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 . [99] In reality, he had sought to prolong the war until further resistance was impossible, thus contributing to the large number of deaths and the extensive destruction Germany suffered in the conflict's final months. 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. Speer, Albert (1905-81). She was a kind and simple lady, living for her children. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". 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. [56] Hitler appointed Speer in Todt's place. 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. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. [130] Speer also read, studied architectural journals, and brushed up on English and French. [13], In mid-1922, Speer began courting Margarete (Margret) Weber (19051987), the daughter of a successful craftsman who employed 50 workers. [46] Eventually, 75,000 Jews were displaced by these measures. A lbert Speer was born in 1905 in Mannheim to an upper-middle-class family that had benefited from Germany's meteoric economic growth. [110] After Hitler's death, Speer offered his services to the so-called Flensburg Government, headed by Hitler's successor, Karl Dnitz. [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. [87], The Fighter Staff committee was instrumental in bringing about the increased exploitation of slave labor in the war economy. [1]:506,699701. Reporters and photographers crowded both the street outside Spandau and the lobby of the Hotel Berlin where Speer spent the night. Speer's desperate mother called Speer . 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. Speer enthusiastically supported the program and in March 1942 made an order for A4 rockets, the predecessor of the world's first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket. [117], Speer was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, principally for the use of slave labor and forced labor. He had claimed that he was unaware of Nazi extermination plans, and the Allies had no proof that he was aware. [54], In 1941, Speer was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 2 (Berlin-West). William. Speer was appalled by this order, and persuaded several key military and political leaders to ignore it. In 1918, moved to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany. After serving. [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. A speech by Albert Speer (there is an account of this speech in Albert Speer, Erinnerungen [Berlin, 1969], p. 325) was followed by speeches of his deputies: Willy Schliecker, the expert on American rearmament; Walther Rohland, the head of Panzer production; Karl Frydag, who was in charge of aircraft building; and Otto Merker, who was . Stalingrad was a classic example where he refused to provide the equipment necessary to supply his army on the Eastern front during the terrible winter of 1941. For other uses, see, Party architect and government functionary, Berlin's General Building Inspector (19371942). [108] On 29 April, the day before committing suicide, Hitler dictated a final political testament which dropped Speer from the successor government. [135] Speer's efforts for an early release came to naught. He had become one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. He was not involved in the plot, and played a minor role in the regime's efforts to regain control over Berlin after Hitler survived. In 1944, this became endemic; over half a million workers were arrested. [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. [86] On 1 August 1944, Speer merged the Fighter Staff into a newly formed Armament Staff committee. albert speers younger brother ernst was killed at Stalingrad Speer with his children Albert and Hilde, front, and Margret, Arnold and Fritz, back. Ultimately, when their emergence involved the ruin of all his work, Speer accepted the consequences and acted. In the World War II, Hitler appointed him as the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany. The houses still look very much the same. [114], The chief United States prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, of the U.S. Supreme Court said, "Speer joined in planning and executing the program to dragoon prisoners of war and foreign workers into German war industries, which waxed in output while the workers waned in starvation. [65] Production of every type of weapon peaked in June and July 1944, but there was now a severe shortage of fuel. [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". 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. Hosted by askropp and Frech. Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and commanded millions of prisoners in the forced production of weaponry, had a comfortable second life. [155] In addition to the myth that he was an apolitical technocrat, he claimed he did not have full knowledge of the Holocaust or the persecution of the Jews. happened. [21] As Chancellor, Hitler had a residence in the building and came by every day to be briefed by Speer and the building supervisor on the progress of the renovations. Born 1906 [location unknown] Ancestors. 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. Four years into their relationship, in September 1981, Speer died. On 27 January 1938, Speer received plenipotentiary powers from Hitler to finish the new chancellery by 1 January 1939. [88] The SS provided 64,000 prisoners for 20 separate projects from various concentration camps including Mittelbau-Dora. Speer's mother asked Albert to do something to get Ernst out. Hitler became interested in Speer through his own interest in the arts. Germany's armaments production had already begun to result in increases under his predecessor, Todt. After hearing Hitler speak at a Berlin . [83] His political rivals used the opportunity to undermine his authority and damage his reputation with Hitler. [31] Speer designed the German Pavilion for the 1937 international exposition in Paris. [111] Speer provided information to the Allies, regarding the effects of the air war, and on a broad range of subjects, beginning on 10 May. Secured early release from prison, became a media celebrity and successfully cultivated the "clean Speer" myth. On 20 July 1942, Speer was enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of. Supposing politics to be irrelevant, he turned aside and built roads and bridges and factories, while the logical consequences of government by madmen emerged. During his life, he worked on redesigning city centers of . Speer II is more than an urban planner. No buildings designed by Speer during the Nazi era are extant in Berlin, other than the 4 entrance pavilions and underpasses leading to the Victory Column or Siegessule,[180] and the Schwerbelastungskrper, a heavy load-bearing body built around 1941. The house had a studio were Hitler (see Hitler parents) often came to draw his . [138] He said little, reserving most comments for a major interview published in Der Spiegel in November 1966. [155] Speer was photographed with slave laborers at Mauthausen concentration camp during a visit on 31 March 1943; he also visited Gusen concentration camp. Inside the Third Reich: Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. 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. He added a stone exterior that pleased Hitler. As a Nazi Party member, she had greatly enjoyed dining with Hitler. Speer's joint undertaking with the SS leadership resulted in the creation of Mittelwerk (Central Works) for underground production of the V-2. Albert Speer Jr., one of the most important German architects and urban planners, died unexpectedly on September 15, 2017 in Frankfurt. The task force was established by 1 March 1944, orders of Speer, with support from Erhard Milch of the Reich Aviation Ministry. Speer, Jr., an eighty-two-year-old with a perennially serious expression and a fondness for energetic hand motions, is one of Germany's best-known urban planners. He lost yet more authority. [61] By April 1942, Speer had persuaded Gring to create a three-member Central Planning Board within the Four Year Plan, which he used to obtain supreme authority over procurement and allocation of raw materials and scheduling of production in order to consolidate German war production in a single agency. The journalist had unwittingly collaborated in one of his myths. By the autumn of 1942 however, the estimated period for developing a weapon had increased to three to four years, much too long to affect the war. By the time Prisoner Number 5Albert Speerwalked out of Spandau Prison on 1 October 1966, he was known to the world as the "Good Nazi.". shelved 32,158 times. [156] Speer took his myth-making to a mass media level and his "cunning apologies" were reproduced frequently in post-war Germany. [173] In 2005, The Daily Telegraph reported that documents had surfaced indicating that Speer had approved the allocation of materials for the expansion of Auschwitz concentration camp after two of his assistants inspected the facility on a day when almost a thousand Jews were massacred. Figlio e nipote di architetti, Spee. [74] In occupied areas of the Soviet Union, that had been subject to partisan action, civilian men and women were rounded up en masse and sent to work forcibly in Germany. 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. Land had been purchased by the end of 1934 and starting in March 1936 the first buildings were demolished to create space at Vostrae. Which he succeeded in doing, with or without Hitler. An upcoming BBC documentary is set to highlight the remarkable story of Albert Goering the brother of Nazi minister and air force chief Hermann Goering who is said to have saved hundreds of. I was searching for information about Ernst (?) There were so many corpses at the Dora underground factory, for example, that the crematorium was overwhelmed. [68] Hitler was closely involved with the design of the tanks, but kept changing his mind about the specifications. Startseite; Cytologie. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/pr/; German: [pe] (listen); 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. Then it was too late; Germany had been destroyed. Speer cancelled some hours before take-off because the previous night he had been up late in a meeting with Hitler. [123] Wolters raised a total of DM158,000 for Speer over the final seventeen years of his sentence. He was acquitted on the other two counts. He met Hitler and toured the damaged Chancellery before leaving Berlin to return to Hamburg. The book was a worn, thick burgundy paperback, spine splintered in three parts, tiny print . Detailed plans were completed in July 1937 and the first shell of the new chancellery was complete on 1 January 1938. As an example, he wanted to be given power over all armaments issues under Hermann Gring's Four Year Plan. [77], Speer and his hand-picked director of submarine construction Otto Merker believed that the shipbuilding industry was being held back by outdated methods, and revolutionary new approaches imposed by outsiders would dramatically improve output. Speer was loyal to Hitler, and his experience building prisoner of war camps and other structures for the military qualified him for the job. See answer (1) Copy. [70], Speer realized that with six million workers drafted into the armed forces, there was a labor shortage in the war economy, and not enough workers for his factories. Using misleading statistics, he promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was widely credited with keeping Germany in the war. [174] Heinrich Breloer, discussing the construction of Auschwitz, said Speer was not just a cog in the workhe was the "terror itself". [6] He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied architecture. [23][24], In the English version of his memoirs, Speer says that his political commitment merely consisted of paying his "monthly dues". First published in 1969, it appeared in English translation in 1970. Werner Heisenberg told Speer "the scientific solution had already been found and that theoretically nothing stood in the way of building such a bomb." His first draft was written from March 1953 to 26 December 1954. Speer was born in Mannheim, Germany on March 19, 1905, to Luise and Albert. [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. Speer first heard Adolf Hitler speak during an address to the combined students and faculty of Berlin University and his institute. Showing 28 distinct works. [92] The rockets were built at an underground factory at Mittelwerk. Albert Speer was the Nazi Party's chief architect, a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and the brains behind the Nazi military production machine. [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. [26], The image of the good Nazi was supported by numerous Speer myths. [77] His close relationship with Hitler provided him with political protection, and he was able to outwit and outmaneuver his rivals in the regime. [89] To increase production, Speer introduced a system of punishments for his workforce. [2] In 1918, the family leased their Mannheim residence and moved to a home they had in Heidelberg. [118] On 1 October 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. A scene from 'Rise of the Nazis' Photo: 72 Films. He fabricated the additional details. He originally wanted to become a mathematician, but his father advised against the wish, suggesting that he would "lead a life without money, without a position, and . [8] In 1924, when the crisis had abated, he transferred to the "much more reputable" Technical University of Munich. by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post I thought he was to be relieved quite early from the Kessel, from influence of Albert Speer. This is followed by an epilogue dealing with the end of the war in Europe and the resulting Nuremberg trials, in which Speer was sentenced to a 20-year prison term for his actions during the war. In response, Hitler appointed Fritz Sauckel as a "manpower dictator" to obtain new workers. the eldest went to visit his brother while in spandau prison and [91], On 14 April 1944, Speer lost control of Organisation Todt to his Deputy, Franz Xaver Dorsch. [124], The prisoners were forbidden to write memoirs. [97] However, he concluded that the war was lost after Soviet forces captured the important Silesian industrial region later that month. [73] Sauckel obtained new workers often using the most brutal methods. He took a role in that short-lived regime as Minister of Industry and Production. He was the second of three sons of Luise Mthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer. Speer's full length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. His brothers names were Charles, Albert, Louis (Ludwig), and [26] Brechtken added that, throughout Speer's life, his central motives were to gain power, rule, and acquire wealth. [60] Speer set out to gain control not just of armaments production in the army, but in the whole armed forces. After joining the Nazi Party in 1930, Speer became Adolf Hitler's personal architect. 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. 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. 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. [101], By mid-March, Speer had accepted that Germany's economy would collapse within the next eight weeks. First Architect of the Third Reich. a nemzeti szocialista Nmet Birodalom fptsze, fegyverkezsi minisztere, a haditermels irnytja.. A hbor befejezse utn Nrnbergben egyetlen volt a brsg el lltott szemlyek kzl, aki elismerte felelssgt a msodik vilghbors esemnyekrt, hsz . Take-Off because the previous night he had claimed that he was aware born in Mannheim, on! 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