After a week, Nitze received a message from a superior: “Paul, if you’ve got any further things you want to find out from Speer you’d better get him tomorrow.”  The Americans were planning on arresting the former minister of armaments and war production, and he would no longer be available for interrogation. The Third Reich’s chief architect who also served as Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Yet Hitler’s chosen successor, Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, decamped with others of the Nazi Party faithful to northern Germany and formed the Flensburg Government. Albert Speer, Jr. was famous throughout the world for his architecture. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). Get the best of Smithsonian magazine by email. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. We were unable to submit your feedback at this time. He was also Hitler's chosen architect and stage designer, who devised plans for grandiose monuments and mass rallies. Speer was also appointed as head of the Organisation Todt, a massive, government-controlled construction company. Later, to show his credentials as a “good Nazi” and to distance himself from his co-defendants, Speer would claim that he’d planned to kill Hitler two years before by dropping a poison gas canister into an air intake in his bunker. ''Once more Hitler had succeeded in paralyzing me psychically.'' Speer died in a London hospital in 1981. We’ve updated the security on the site. From 1939 and the onset of war, Speer's department used the Nuremberg Laws to evict Jewish tenants of non-Jewish landlords in Berlin to make way for non-Jewish tenants displaced by redevelopment or bombing. Speer and Soviet architect Boris Iofan were both awarded gold medals for their respective designs. During this time, Speer, Jr. developed a severe stutter which he would eventually overcome. Albert Speer, (born March 19, 1905, Mannheim, Baden, Germany—died September 1, 1981, London, England), German architect who was Adolf Hitler ’s chief architect (1933–45) and minister for armaments and war production (1942–45). Do you know these lucrative Social Security secrets? See the article in its original context from. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Good. Mr. Speer was indicted in August as one of 24 major war criminals and was tried at Nuremberg. Pictured is the chancellery's Courtyard of Honor. GREAT NEWS! ---- Dedicated Administrator By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. History Channel, 2010, Hosted by Alisdair Simpson. A quarter-century after his death, a collection of 100 letters emerged from his ten-year correspondence with Helene Jeanty, the widow of a Belgian resistance leader. In the fall of 1946, most of the Nazi elites at Nuremberg were sentenced either to death or to life in prison. He claimed that he had drawing abilities and he had ideas for architecture, in short, it was his own decision which was almost completely separate from his father’s legacy. The stadium was never completed. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. He was also infamous for being the son of one of Adolf Hitler’s close confidants, a fact he tried to escape for his entire life. Many Projects Stopped by War, ''All these concepts were more than plans, they were projects already under way when the war began,'' Mr. Speer wrote. There were many projects that were never built - a triumphal arch 49 times larger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a stadium for 300,000 spectators, a dome nearly 900 feet high. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. In February 1942, when Fritz Todt, the Minister of Armaments, died in a plane crash, Hitler made Mr. Speer the successor. Thus Nitze needed Speer. We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. For his part, he showed no emotion when we confronted one another. Members of the public mingle with officials inside the German pavilion in Paris during the 1937 Paris exposition. Speer became known for his international projects which were frequently on a large scale. At 36, Mr.Speer was the youngest member of the Cabinet. There is archival footage showing a young Speer playing on the veranda of Hitler’s villa while Hitler watches. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). But questions about Speer’s truthfulness began to dog him soon after his release. In his last years, Mr. Speer lived qui@etly and comfortably in a rustic cottage his father built in the hills near Heidelberg when his son was born. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). Had Rank of Colonel in the SS. They had no children. FRANKFURT — Albert Speer Jr., an internationally prominent architect who sought throughout his life to distance himself from the dark legacy … Drag images here or select from your computer for Albert Speer memorial. The notes were the basis of his later books. Family members linked to this person will appear here. By some accounts, his home was not known for being loving and warm. And underneath it, a crypt in which, Hitler's advance orders said, the sarcophagi of his successful commanders and the coffins of the heroes of the wars being planned in 1936 were to have their place.''. Vote Now! Dan Van Der Vat, The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997. You can still file a request but no one will be notified. I was both moved and confused. Despite Allied air raids, Mr. Speer kept wa r production going. Keep up-to-date on: © 2020 Smithsonian Magazine. His legacy as an architect was ephemeral: None of his buildings, including the Reich Chancellery or the Zeppelinfeld stadium, are standing today. When Mr. Speer was released from West Berlin's Spandau prison in 1966 after having completed his 20-year sentence, he made a career of writing his memoirs. Using forced and slave labor, Speer was able to increase armaments production to an incredible quantity, while dispersing his factories to lessen their destruction from allied bombing. ALBERT SPEER was the one that got away. He was 76 years old. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Hilde Schramm is talking about Albert Speer, Hitler’s personal architect in 1933, minister of armaments and munitions from 1943, and the father she barely knew when the war ended. A former investment banker named Paul Nitze, who was then vice chairman of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, believed it was imperative to get to Speer. Paul Nitze of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey interrogated Speer in May 1945. Speer was the eldest of six children. Speer arrived in Flensburg aware that the Allies were targeting Nazi leaders for war-crimes trials. He made notes on toilet paper and had them smuggled out with the help of a guard. ). No buildings designed by Speer during the Nazi era remain in Berlin except for the Schwerbelastungskörper, a heavy load- bearing body built around 1941. What is more, by my abilities and energies, I prolonged that war by many months. This is Hitler inspecting Speer's model of the planned German stadium at the Nuremberg Rally of 1937 before the laying of its foundation stone. Try again. Failed to delete memorial. He was culpable, he said, but he insisted he had no knowledge of the crimes. The ultimate war aim that Hitler had set for himself in 1936 meant that, given his opini on of the power of theJews in the U nited States, he would not rest before achieving domination ov er America.'' In an interview, he stated that his father’s occupation did not influence his decision to become an architect. His wife of 45 years, the actress known as Ingmar Zeisberg, survives him. Terms of Use Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Breaking from other top Nazi defendants, Speer pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 20 years in Spandau prison. Try again later. Give a Gift. He designed a criminal court complex in Riyadh, a complex of government buildings in China and the campus of Shanghai’s Fudan University.

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