When measuring the extent to which Albert Speer had a positive impact on his time‚ it is essential to identify all the contributions made by Speer that had both a positive and negative effect on Germany and the broader global world. The positive contributions made by Speer include his work as the “First Architect of the Reich” — consisting of the Germania project and the Reich Chancellery; and as Armaments Minister which significantly strengthened the Nazi war effort. However‚ all this was negated
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Despite Albert Speer’s claims‚ as Minister of Armaments‚ it is inevitable that Albert Speer was aware of the use and abuse of forced labour and the appalling conditions of inmates at concentration camps and I find it hard to believe anything contrary. As Gitta Sereny suggests‚ Speer knew a lot more than what he led on‚ he knew what he was inevitably going to find out. Although Speer states in‚ Inside the Third Reich‚ “I did not investigate‚ I did not want to know”‚ this position of knowledge places
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“Speer was an apolitical technocrat” There have been historical arguments over the idea of Albert Speer being an apolitical technocrat in regards to his career. Speer wasn’t an apolitical technocrat due to the use of slave labour for the production of armament‚ his visits to concentration camps such as Mauthausen camp and the horrific conditions he saw at the Dora missile factory‚ his knowledge of Himmler’s speech at Posen also his defence at the Nuremburg trials in 1945. Criticism of Speer’s
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Albert Speer. Early Years: Albert Speer was born in 1905; in the city of Mannheim located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Albert had been raised in the small township of Heidelberg; he was the second of three boys. His father‚ Albert Friedrich Speer‚ was a highly successful architect and his mother Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine Hommel was the daughter of a very wealthy businessman. Albert was nine years old at the time when World War One broke out‚ though he was too young to fight at
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The Nuremburg Trial outcome is our vital evidence that Albert Speer was a man who was corrupted by the events at the time. He is the epitome of the saying “events shape people more than people shape events” as he merely rode the wave of Nazism. As German historian Joachim Fest stated‚ “He [Hitler] drew Speer to him like no one else‚ he singles him out and made him great” (Fest‚ The Face of Third Reich‚ pg 340). In any other situation it is inconceivable that an architect could have come to hold the
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Albert Speer Albert Speer was a personal architect for Hitler also the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi regime. He was the only Nazi to bear the responsibility on the crimes of his former master Hitler and the Nazi regime in the Nuremburg Trials. But he said he knew nothing about the fate of the Jews and claimed he was just focused on his ambition. Albert Speer was born in 1905 the second of the three sons. He belonged to a wealthy family attending a exclusive primary school
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life of the personality you have studied. (10 marks) Albert Speer was born on the 19th of March 1905. His family was very well off compared to the general population and their social status demanded an adherence to social conventions and formality. As a student and early adult‚ Speer was very apolitical however leaned towards the communism. Speer was first introduced to Nazism in 1930 where he was first inspired by Hitler’s oratory skills. Speer became a member of the Nazi Party on March the 1st 1931
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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (Known as Albert) was born in 1905 into an upper middle class family in Manheim‚ Germany‚ although his family relocated to Hiedelberg in 1918. He grew up in a household “lacking of love and warmth ”. As a child Speer was active in sports and was a natural mathematician. Speer followed the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied architecture; initially‚ due to the hyperinflation of Germany in 1923‚ at the University of Karlsruhe‚ a “lower class” university
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which Albert Speer contributed to Nazi Germany during World War 2 and prior to it as Hitler’s architect. Speer was a winner as he became Reich minister of armaments and war production‚ becoming second in command (inside the third Reich). His success extended further in Nuremburg as he escaped with his life. However personalities are remembered as winners in history and Speer is now remembered as a deceitful Nazi who attempted to put his name down in history as a great historical figure. Speer won
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Albert Speer Outline Albert Speer’s Role within the Nazi regime Albert Speer’s Role in the Nazi Regime primarily was centred on a couple of areas‚ his work as the General Building Inspector (GBI)‚ the chief architect of the Reich and his role as Armaments Minister. Speer’s ascendancy within the Nazi hierarchy has been described by Henry King as ‘vertical and ladder like‚ Speer was an intelligent‚ affluent and well educated man and there is no doubt that he made a remarkable progression through
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