By Albert Speer
In a memoir written in the course of his 20-year imprisonment for struggle crimes and crimes opposed to humanity, Speer, the Minister of Armaments and struggle creation less than Hitler, chronicles his function within the conflict attempt, offering an insider's view of the Nazi nation. First released in 1970 and now reissued, a first-hand account of the increase and fall of the 3rd Reich which additionally bargains a special portrait of Adolf Hitler himself, not easy some of the myths that experience surrounded him.
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As a result, I remained uncritical, unable to deal with the arguments of my student friends, who were predominantly indoctrinated with the National Socialist ideology. For had I only' wanted to, I could have found oU,t even then that Hitler was proclaiming expansion of the Reich to the east; that he was a rank anti-Semite; that he was committed to a system of authoritarian rule; that after attaining power he intended to eliminate democratic procedures and would thereafter yield only to force. Not to have worked that out for myseH; not, given my education, to have read books, magazines, and newspapers of various viewpoints; not to have tried to see through the whole apparatus of mystification-was already criminal.
It seemed as if he were candidly presenting his anxieties about the future. His irony was softened by a somewhat seH-conscious humor; his South German charm reminded me agreeably of my native region. A cool Prussian could never have captivated me that way. Hitler's initial shyness soon disappeared; at times now his pitch rose. He spoke urgently and with hypnotic persuasiveness. The mood he cast was much deeper than the speech itseH, most of which I did not remember for long. Moreover, I was carried on the wave of the enthusiasm which, one could almost feel this physically, bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence.
But Goebbels thought what I had done insufficiently impressive. " Hanke had secured the influential post of "Minister's Secretary" in the Ministry and ruled over the new minister's anterooms with great skill. I happened to see a sketch on his desk of the decorations for the night rally that was to be held at Tempelbof Field on May 1. The designs outraged both my revolutionary and my architectural feelings. "Those look like the decorations for a riBe club meet," I exclaimed. " . That same night I sketched a large platform and behind it three mighty banners, each of them taller than a ten-story building, stretched between wooden struts: two of the banners would be black-white-Ted with the swastika banner between them.