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Albert Speer

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Also known as Albert Friedrich Speer, Albert, Jr. Speer, Albert Speer Jr.

German architect and urban planner (1934–2017)

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Born
1905
Died
1981
Works
58

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  • Die neue Reichskanzlei
  • Tatsachen sprechen für den Sieg
  • ナチス狂気の內幕
  • Architektur
  • Be-tokhekhi ha-raykh ha-shelishi

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Listeners
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Total plays
208

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Quotes

  • A new large-scale war will end with the destruction of human culture and civilization. Therefore, this trial must contribute toward preventing such degenerate wars in the future, and toward establishing rules whereby human beings can live together.
  • I felt this coming. I tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler in 1945. I am not concerned with jurisdiction of the court as Hess or others are. History will show the trials to be necessary.
  • 20 years. Well … that's fair enough. They couldn't have given me a lighter sentence, considering the facts, and I can't complain. I said the sentences must be severe, and I admitted my share of the guilt, so it would be ridiculous if I complained about the punishment.
  • Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.
  • The young district leader chose Bauhaus wallpapers at my suggestion, although I had hinted that these were "Communist" wallpapers. He waved that warning aside with a grand gesture: "We will take the best of everything, even from the Communists." In saying this he was expressing what Hitler and his staff had already been doing for years: picking up anything that promised success without regard for ideology…
  • Basically, I exploited the phenomenon of the technician’s often blind devotion to his task. Because of what seems to be the moral neutrality of technology, these people were without any scruples about their activities. The more technical the world imposed on us by the war, the more dangerous was this indifference of the technician to the direct consequences of his anonymous activities.

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albertspeerstiftung.de
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Albert Speer junior
date of birth
1934-07-29
name in native language
Albert Speer Junior
date of death
2017-09-15
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