In 1942, he was named Minister of Armaments and Munitions, assuming significant responsibility for the German war economy. On 20 July 1942, Speer was enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of. [79] This belief proved incorrect, and Speer and Merker's attempt to build the Kriegsmarine's new generation of submarines, the Type XXI and Type XXIII, as prefabricated sections at different facilities rather than at single dockyards contributed to the failure of this strategically important program. Speer was loyal to Hitler, and his experience building prisoner of war camps and other structures for the military qualified him for the job. Gring was reluctant to grant this. In 1918, moved to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany. [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". Study now. 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. [55] At the same time, Hitler also appointed Speer as head of the Organisation Todt, a massive, government-controlled construction company. Speer cancelled some hours before take-off because the previous night he had been up late in a meeting with Hitler. [91], The largest technological advance under Speer's command came through the rocket program. [181] The tribune of the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, though partly demolished, can also be seen. This allowed an extra 300 huts to be built at Auschwitz, increasing the total human capacity to 132,000. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [136] Speer served a full term and was released at midnight on 1 October 1966. He admitted only to being uncomfortable around Jews in the published version of the Spandau Diaries. [32], On 30 January 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital. [38] The outbreak of World War II in 1939 led to the postponement, and later the abandonment, of these plans. [75] By April 1943, Sauckel had supplied 1,568,801 "voluntary" laborers, forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners to Speer for use in his armaments factories. Albert Speer was the Nazi Party's chief architect, a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and the brains behind the Nazi military production machine. One of Speer's grandfathers was among the most successful machine-tool manufacturers in Germany; the other was a well-known architect. Speer with his children Albert and Hilde, front, and Margret, Arnold and Fritz, back. Speer II is more than an urban planner. The existing Berlin railroad termini were to be dismantled, and two large new stations built. 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. German architect of the Nazi period (1933-45). Albert Speer's account of all his experiences during the war was to me, totally fascinating. 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 . Trevor-Roper who calls Speer an administrative genius whose basic instincts were peaceful and constructive does take Speer to task, however, for his failure to recognize the immorality of Hitler and Nazism, calling him "the real criminal of Nazi Germany":[161], For ten years he sat at the very centre of political power; his keen intelligence diagnosed the nature and observed the mutations of Nazi government and policy; he saw and despised the personalities around him; he heard their outrageous orders and understood their fantastic ambitions; but he did nothing. by punktlich02 29 Oct 2009, 11:35, Return to The Dieter Zinke Axis Biographical Research Section. A brick factory was built near the Oranienburg concentration camp at Speer's behest; when someone commented on the poor conditions there, Speer stated, "The Yids got used to making bricks while in Egyptian captivity". All of the Germanic peoples will be included in it. This image dominated his historiography in the decades following the war, giving rise to the "Speer Myth": the perception of him as an apolitical technocrat responsible for revolutionizing the German war machine. Speer's Heidelberg school offered rugby football, unusual for Germany, skiing, and Speer was a participant. bio je arhitekt i ministar naoruanja u nacistikoj Njemakoj. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. [58] Characteristically Hitler did not give Speer any clear remit; he was left to fight his contemporaries in the regime for power and control. Schmidt authored the first book that was highly critical of Speer. [20], Shortly after Hitler came into power, he began to make plans to rebuild the chancellery. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who became Minister of Armaments and War Production in World War II, died today at St. Mary's Hospital. [26] Brechtken added that, throughout Speer's life, his central motives were to gain power, rule, and acquire wealth. [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. 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. 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. Speer went on to quote Hitler as telling him privately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, "We will create a great empire. [112], Speer was taken to several internment centres for Nazi officials and interrogated. He took a role in that short-lived regime as Minister of Industry and Production. [85] The growth, however, consisted in large part of models that were becoming obsolescent and proved easy prey for Allied aircraft. He suffered a stroke and died in London on 1 September. [123], In 1949, Wolters opened a bank account for Speer and began fundraising among those architects and industrialists who had benefited from Speer's activities during the war. Albert Speer Jr. was born on July 29, 1934, one year after Hitler had consolidated power in Germany. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". [15], In January 1931, Speer applied for Nazi Party membership, and on 1 March 1931, he became member number 474,481. Speer's joint undertaking with the SS leadership resulted in the creation of Mittelwerk (Central Works) for underground production of the V-2. [179], Little remains of Speer's personal architectural works, other than the plans and photographs. [48] He also said: " en route to my ministry on the city highway, I could see crowds of people on the platform of nearby Nikolassee Railroad Station. First published in 1969, it appeared in English translation in 1970. [11] As such, Speer taught some of his classes while continuing his own postgraduate studies. Prisoners worked for Junkers, Messerschmitt, Henschel and BMW, among others. At the end of July 1942, a lack of fuel brought Paulus to a halt at Kalach. [113] Speer was indicted on four counts: participating in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. After August 1944, oil from the Romanian fields was no longer available. . The complicated architecture of Albert Speer, Jr. From being the son of a Nazi to becoming one of the world's foremost architects, this 82-year-old urban planner has been on top of the German planning world for more than half a century. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. A lbert Speer was born in 1905 in Mannheim to an upper-middle-class family that had benefited from Germany's meteoric economic growth. [44] The chancellery was completed in early January 1939. [77] By July 1943, he had gained control of armaments production for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. [102][103] Hitler rejected Speer's proposal to cease demolitions. [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. 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. 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). Having served his full term, Speer was released in 1966. 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. Efforts were made and a search of Ernst's unit ended in failure. He met Hitler and toured the damaged Chancellery before leaving Berlin to return to Hamburg. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. Speer states that even if Germany concentrated all of its resources, it would have been 1947 before they could have had an atom bomb. [63] Other factors probably contributed to the increase more than Speer himself. The relationship will always amaze. [127], Much of Speer's energy was dedicated to keeping fit, both physically and mentally, during his long confinement. Sauckel had whole villages in France, Holland and Belgium forcibly rounded up and shipped to Speer's factories. At the end of 1933, he contracted Paul Troost to renovate the entire building. Hitler's cabinet was dismayed at his tactics, but, regardless, he was able to accumulate new responsibilities and more power. The battle is infamous as one of the largest . [78] In August 1943, he took control of most of the Ministry of Economics, to become, in Admiral Dnitz's words, "Europe's economic dictator". Speer first heard Adolf Hitler speak during an address to the combined students and faculty of Berlin University and his institute. Progress was slow because fuel was rationed and Army Group A were given priority. Speer studied at the technical schools in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Berlin, and acquired an architectural license in 1927. Secured early release from prison, became a media celebrity and successfully cultivated the "clean Speer" myth. Na Nrnberkom procesu preuzeo je moralnu odgovornost za svoja djela te je priznao ignorantnost po pitanju Holokausta. [69], As head of Organisation Todt, Speer was directly involved in the construction and alteration of concentration camps. 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. Speer liked the scenario so much that he wrote it into his memoirs. Until 2 September 1943 the position's official name was Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. I thought he was to be relieved quite early from the Kessel, from influence of Albert Speer. [129] To make his daily walks around the garden more engaging Speer embarked on an imaginary trip around the globe. 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. 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. August 1, 2017. Albert was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. In his writings, Speer claimed to have finished five thousand books while in prison. I knew that these must be Berlin Jews who were being evacuated. This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. He coveted control of the production of armaments for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine as well. However, his other brother Ernst had died in the Battle of Stalingrad, despite repeated requests from his parents for Speer to repatriate him. The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. [141] He found himself unable to re-establish a relationship with his children, even with his son Albert who had also become an architect. Among those who pledged support for his sentence to be commuted were Charles de Gaulle and US diplomat George Wildman Ball. It had been edited by Wolters and made no mention of the Jews. He lost Hitler's unconditional support and began to lose power. Ernst Speer. The myth began to fall apart in the 1980s, when the armaments miracle was attributed to Nazi propaganda. Naval armaments were not under Speer's supervision until October 1943, nor the Luftwaffe's armaments until June of the following year. Nobody else in Hitler's circle, not even Josef Goebbels, was shown such favoritism. [5] Wolters and longtime Speer secretary Annemarie Kempf, while not permitted direct communication with Speer in Spandau, did what they could to help his family and carry out the requests Speer put in letters to his wifethe only written communication he was officially allowed. Before that, Speer worked as the chief architect in Hitler's Nazi . Speer asked Wolters to destroy the material he had omitted from his donation but Wolters refused and retained an original copy. [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. [5] Speer was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer's younger brother Ernst was trapped in the Kessel, lying in a freezing stable without walls, gravely ill with jaundice. For a treatise on this aspect of the war including Speer's involvement see: Randall, Hansen, Last edited on 17 February 2023, at 08:56, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions, "Trials of the War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume II: The Milch Case", "Wartime reports debunk Speer as the good Nazi", "Letter proves Speer knew of Holocaust plan", "Historiker ber Albert Speer: "Er tat alles fr den Endsieg", "Rechtfertigung und Entlastung. While he sought to frustrate directives to destroy industrial facilities in areas at risk of capture, so that they could be used after the war, he still supported the war's continuation. It's the end of an era: The company's founder Professor Albert Speer passes away in September aged 83. [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. [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. The family learned of this through some letters Ernst sent. Which he succeeded in doing, with or without Hitler. "[118], Speer was credited with an "armaments miracle". Sept. 21, 2017. After serving. During his life, he worked on redesigning city centers of . He was credited with a dramatic increase in the shipment of arms that was widely reported as keeping Germany in the war. Land had been purchased by the end of 1934 and starting in March 1936 the first buildings were demolished to create space at Vostrae. The program while advanced proved to be an impediment to the war economy. His father, who died in 1947, despised the Nazis and was silent upon meeting Hitler. [177], The armaments "miracle" was a myth; Speer had used statistical manipulation to support his claims. By Dorothy . [87], The Fighter Staff committee was instrumental in bringing about the increased exploitation of slave labor in the war economy. 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. 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. [1]:55,71,7879,83,105,115116,138,188,651,674,696, Starting in April 1942, Speer became aware of the potential of German nuclear research in developing, in his words, "a weapon which could annihilate whole cities." FC Bayern Munich opens a new sports complex with a youth academy planned by AS+P. I presumably had a sense of somber events. Ultimately, when their emergence involved the ruin of all his work, Speer accepted the consequences and acted. von Speer, Albert: und eine groe Auswahl hnlicher Bcher, Kunst und Sammlerstcke erhltlich auf AbeBooks.de. Speer was able to have his writings sent to Wolters, however, and they eventually amounted to 20,000 pages. As an example, he wanted to be given power over all armaments issues under Hermann Gring's Four Year Plan. [158] Kitchen said he had deceived the Nuremberg Tribunal and post-war Germany. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials . He was 76 years old. Despite this opposition, the two married in Berlin on 28 August 1928; seven years elapsed before Margarete was invited to stay at her in-laws' home. On 27 January 1938, Speer received plenipotentiary powers from Hitler to finish the new chancellery by 1 January 1939. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. [76], Following his appointment as Minister of Armaments, Speer was in control of armaments production solely for the Army. Air attacks on the transport network were particularly effective, as they cut the main centres of production off from essential coal supplies. Sereny gained respect for his sincerity in his personal "battle with truth.". Most days he was invited to dinner. [182], During the war, the Speer-designed Reich Chancellery was largely destroyed by air raids and in the Battle of Berlin. - London, Anglia, 1981. szeptember 1.) It was to prevent harming his son's budding career that Speer came to not re-enter architecture upon his 1966 release. [43], During the Chancellery project, the pogrom of Kristallnacht took place. [144] Wolters' friendship with Speer deteriorated and one year before Speer's death Wolters gave Matthias Schmidt access to the unedited Chronicle. [46] Eventually, 75,000 Jews were displaced by these measures. [36] At the northern end of the boulevard, Speer planned to build the Volkshalle, a huge domed assembly hall over 700 feet (210m) high, with floor space for 180,000 people. [26], The image of the good Nazi was supported by numerous Speer myths. Speer returned to London in 1981 to participate in the BBC Newsnight programme. [137], Speer's release from prison was a worldwide media event. by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post After one of these briefings, Hitler invited Speer to lunch, to the architect's great excitement. [52] Speer's building work made him among the wealthiest of the Nazi elite. While dozens of submarines were built, few ever entered service. Hitler appointed Speer, whose work for Goebbels had impressed him, to manage the building site for Troost. Showing 28 distinct works. His sister's name was Carrie. Speer-Weber, Magarete, born 08-09-1905 in Heidelberg, lived there all her live, they also had a house near Hitler's Berghof on the Obersalzberg and was a girlfriend of Eva Braun (see Braun parents) and a regular visitor on the Berghof of Berchtesgaden. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. 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. 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. [1]:506,699701. This article is about the book. 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". Thanks! In the World War II, Hitler appointed him as the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany. [131], Speer's supporters maintained calls for his release. According to Speer's daughter Hilde Schramm, "One by one my sister and brothers gave up. Son of Albert Friedrich Speer and Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) Speer. Mr. Speer had been taken to the . [130] Speer also read, studied architectural journals, and brushed up on English and French. I myself must carry this out. 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. 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. 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