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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Nazi leader Albert Speer who served Hitler as a minister of wartime production, looking at Speer's knowledge of Holocaust activities, discussing his personal role in the exploitation of slave labor, and questioning his denial of war crimes.
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"This remarkable book about the inexhaustible mercy of God uses the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, as a window to our own souls. Tbe story of Speer - a man who sold his soul for ambition's sake and who later repented and reformed - holds startling truths for all of us. Miriam Pollard offers profound insights on evil and suffering, denial and self-knowledge, conversion and atonement, and most of all, the unconditional love of God." --
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An unemployed architect when Hitler came to power in 1933, Albert Speer was soon designing the Third Reich's most important buildings. In 1942 Hitler appointed him Armaments Minister and he quadrupled production, an astonishing achievement that kept the German Army in the field and prolonged the war. Yet Speer's life was full of contradictions. The only member of the Nazi elite with whom Hitler developed more than a purely functional relationship...