Albert
Speer : His Battle With Truth
by Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny's biography meticulously re-creates for the reader the
professional, emotional, and psychological life of Albert Speer, Hitler's
architect and later his Minister of Armaments. Throughout the 12-year history
of the Third Reich, Speer remained one of Hitler's most trusted confidants
and one of the most powerful political leaders of the Nazi party. Researched
and written over an eight year period, Albert Speer weaves together information
from innumerable personal interviews with Speer, his family, close friends,
and professional colleagues, the author's own solid grasp of German history,
and critical readings of Speer's own writings, including various drafts
of his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, first published in 1969.
Throughout, Sereny consciously avoids the pitfall of many Speer biographers,
who seek to either blame or exculpate Speer for the Nazi's atrocities.
Instead, she succeeds in helping the reader understand a "morally extinguished"
man and place into context "all the crimes against humanity which Hitler
initiated, which continue to threaten us today, and of which Speer, who
was in many ways a man of excellence, sadly enough made himself a part."
Well over 700 pages, Albert Speer is not a quick read, but superbly written
and meticulously researched, it is a pleasure to read, providing unprecedented
insight into one of the most complex figures in modern German history.
--Bertina
Loeffler - Amazon.com
Paperback: 757 pages
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679768122; Reprint edition (November
1996)
Spandau:
The Secret Diaries
by Albert Speer, et al
(Paperback)
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Albert Speer & Partner : Planen Und Bauen Urbanism and Architecture
by Paulhans Peters
Paperback - 160 pages Eng/Ger edition (May 1997)
Birkhauser (Architectural); ISBN: 3764352655
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The
Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental
Building Economy
by Paul B. Jaskot
Exploring the reasons why the SS chose to focus so many of its forced-labor
concerns around the production of building materials, The Architecture
of Oppression argues that the architectural history of Nazi Germany is
inextricably linked to its most punitive institutions. Through an analysis
of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds
and the rebuilding of Berlin, Paul Jaskot ties together the development
of the German building economy, state architectural goals and the rise
of the SS as a political and economic force. Amazon.com
Paperback: 208 pages
E & F N Spon; ISBN: 0415223415; 1 edition (December
1999)
Inside
the Third Reich : Memoirs
by Albert Speer, et al
From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from
the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript
pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their
1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history
was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the
Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues
to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life
within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire,
and of Hitler himself. Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority
of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when
Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort
as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital
and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both
duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic,
imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout,
Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling
insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led
to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's
holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler - Amazon.com
Paperback: 672 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.69 x
8.30 x 5.54
Publisher: Touchstone Books; Reissue edition (June 1997)
ISBN: 0684829495
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Good Nazi : The Life and Lies of Albert Speer
by Dan Van Der Vat, et al
(Hardcover - October 1997)
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Speer : Hitler's Architect (Holocaust Biographies)
by Fred Ramen
(Library Binding - June 2001)
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by David Edgar
(Paperback)
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Richard D. Mandell
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Speer:
The Final Verdict
by Joachim Fest, Ewald Osers, Alexandra Dring
Paperback from Harvest Books
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