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Albert Speer

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Also known as Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer

German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)

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Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer in Mannheim in 1905, was a German politician and architect. He was educated at Technische Universität Berlin and served as a member of the Nazi Party, the Sturmabteilung, and the Schutzstaffel. During his career, he held the position of Minister of Ammunition and War Production of Nazi Germany.

His notable works include the Deutsches Stadion, Nazi party rally grounds, Volkshalle, and New Chancellery. Speer was convicted of crimes against humanity. He died in London on September 1, 1981. He had three children: Albert Speer, Hilde Schramm, and Margret Nissen.

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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trial and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Known for

  • Albert Speer: The Unseen Interrogation — Self2025
  • Riefenstahl — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Speer Goes to Hollywood — Self (Archive)2021
  • Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2021
  • Who was Hitler — Self (archive footage)2017
  • Hitler and the Apostles of Evil — Self (archive footage)2015
  • Hitler's bodyguard — Self (archive footage)2010
  • Hitlers Berg — Self (archive footage)2006
  • The Private Voice of Hitler — Self (archive footage)2006
  • Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2006

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"Fröhliche Neugestaltung" : oder die Gigantoplanie von Berlin 1937-1943 : Albert Speers Generalbebauungsplan im Spiegel satirischer Zeichnungen von Hans Stephan / Lars Olof und Sabine Larsson, Ingolf Maprecht / Kiel : Ludwig , cop. 2008 Autobiographie als Apologie : Rhetorik der Rechtfertigung bei Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz und Erich Raeder / Roman B. Kremer / Göttingen : V&R Unipress [Artists under Hitler : collaboration and survival in Nazi Germany / Jonathan Petropoulos / New Haven [etc.] : Yale University Press]( Nazi Volksgemeinschaft technology : Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit / John C. Guse / Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan Sind Sie die Tochter Speer ? / Margret Nissen ; unter Mitarbeit von Margit Knapp und Sabine Seifert / München : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , 2005 [Speer : Hitler's architect / Martin Kitchen / New Haven (Conn.) [etc.] : Yale University Press]( Deutsche Plastik unserer Zeit : mit 150 Raumbildaufnahmen und acht Tafeln / von Kurt Lothar Tank ; hrsg. von Wilfrid Bade,... ; Geleitwort von Albert Speer / München : Otto Schönstein Albert Speer, Architektur : Arbeiten 1933-1942 / mit einem Vorwort von Albert Speer ; und Beitra͏̈gen von Karl Arndt,... Georg Friedrich Koch,... und Lars Olof Larsson,... / Berlin : Propyla͏̈en , impr. 1978 [Neue deutsche Baukunst / hrsg. vom Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt Albert Speer ; dargestellt von Rudolf Wolters / [4. Auflage] / Berlin : Volk und Reich Verlag , 1943, cop. 1941]( [Tatsachen sprechen für den Sieg. Die Roden der Reichsminister Speer und... Goebbels im Berliner Sportpalast am 5. Juni 1943 / [Berlin] : [Universum-Verl.] , 1943]( [Die neue Reichskanzlei / Architekt Albert Speer / München : Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf. , [1940?]]( Neue deutsche Baukunst / hrsg. vom Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt Albert Speer ; dargestellt von Rudolf Wolters / Berlin : Volk und Reich Verlag , 1941

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Instance of
human
Given name
Berthold
Gender
male
Citizenship
Germany
Place of birth
Mannheim
Place of death
London
Child
Albert Speer
Father
Albert Friedrich Speer
Position held
Ministry of Ammunition and War Production of Nazi Germany
Educated at
Technische Universität Berlin
Political party
Nazi Party
Languages spoken
German
Notable work
Inside the Third Reich
Hair colour
brown hair
Military branch
Schutzstaffel
Image
Albert-Speer-72-929.jpg
Work location
Mannheim
Convicted of
crime against humanity
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1905-03-19
date of death
1981-09-01
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Alberto Spar
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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ʃpɛər/; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served 20 years in prison.

An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler commissioned him to design and construct structures, including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. In this capacity he was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes in Berlin. In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. Using misleading statistics, he promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was widely credited with keeping Germany in the war. In 1944, Speer established a task force to increase production of fighter aircraft. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the benefit of the German war effort.

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