Albert Speer

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"Albert Speer opens his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, with the statement that if Hitler had had any friends, "I would have been his friend. I owe to him the enthusiasm and glory of my youth as well as belated horror and guilt" (Foreword). It is with a mixture of enthusiastic idealism and introspective regret that Speer assesses his life as Hitler's chief architect and armaments minister. Speer was instrumental in building the glory and shame that were the Third Reich, as well as being a surviving spokesman for those who chose death rather than retribution. He himself tells his story after spending twenty years in jail as a result of the Nuremberg trials.

Speer was born into a prosperous home in Mannheim in 1905. His father was a successful architect whose business was thriving in the booming industrial town. He and his siblings attended a distinguished private school. Music, the arts, and mathematics meant a great deal to the young Speer. Later, he would help Hitler attempt to put into architectural reality the ... "

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