"Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth"

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This paper presents a positive review of Gitta Sereney's book about Adolph Hitler's personal architect and close friend, Albert Speer. The paper looks at the quality of the source material Sereny uses for her book, how Sereny is able to get into the psyche of Speer and adeptly depict his character, and what Sereny's objectives were in writing the book.

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"Steeped in controversy and tainted by his legacy as Hitler's personal architect and close friend, Albert Speer is a difficult historical figure to portray and to pinpoint. Gitta Sereny explores the life and the mind of this complex man with brilliant insight, historical awareness, and sensitivity, as she examines the surprising moral conflicts that Speer faced later in his life, especially after the Nuremberg trials. As the only member of Hitler's inner circle to be spared from the death penalty, Speer had ample time before his death in 1981 to reflect on his role in Nazi atrocities. Although Speer ostensibly never killed a soul, nor did he outwardly perform any act of violence or hatred, he nevertheless supported and loved the man who ordered the brutal deaths of millions of Jews as well as Catholics, gypsies, and homosexuals."

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