Albert Speer
Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting he was ignorant of the Holocaust...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth19 March 1905
CityMannheim, Germany
CountryGermany
I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.
All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.
I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.