If you are interested in architecture, you might want to read about Albert Speer. He was Hitler's main architect. Hitler ordered him to rebuild Berlin into Germania. Germania was going to be the new capital. In 1945 when the Nazi Party fell the plans were over. The war was over and Hitler had killed himself. In 1945 Speer told people he was going to kill Hitler. My opinion of Albert Speer was that he was a good nazi. when in trial for crimes he did and didn't comity he apologized for the nazis rude and illegal way of handling the jews. Albert Speer was a good nazi because he rebuilt Berlin like hitler had asked him to.
Albert Speer was born on March 19, 1905 in Mannheim. His father was an architect and his family were
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wealthy (“Albert Speer”). Although Speer wanted to be a mathematician, he studied hard and became an architect in order to please his father (Albert Speer, encyclopedia.com). Speer studied at the technical schools in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Berlin. He acquired his architectural license in 1927 (Britannica). After his education, Speer continued in the family tradition by becoming an architect. Speer was highly influenced by the architect Heinrich Tessenow and he acted as his assistant for a number of years and taught some of his lessons. In December 1930, some of these students encouraged Speer to attend a Nazi rally that was addressed by Adolf Hitler. Speer, by his own later admission was “intoxicated” by what he heard and saw and he later joined the Nazi Party in March 1931 (Albert Speer). His family's home didn't have any love in it, this made him want to please his father. In 1942 Speer became minister of armaments and munitions, a title enlarged the following year to minister of armaments and war production, when he was charged not only with armaments production, transportation, and placement but also with final authority over raw materials and industrial production.
With this authority, Speer expanded a system of conscript and slave labour, supplied primarily from concentration camps, that maintained production of war material for Nazi Germany (Britannica). The brilliant architect minister of armaments and war production for the Third Reich and a close friend to Hitler. Throughout World War II, Speer had directed an “armaments miracle,” doubling Hitler’s production orders and prolonging the German war effort while under relentless Allied air attacks (King Gilbert). Speer instituted the changes in the institutional framework of the German war economy which made the brilliant success of German war production between spring, 1942 and summer 1944 possible (Pike John). Speer’s designs are uniformly moribund and dry, without a spark of originality (Sorkin Michael). Speer did get off easy at Nuremberg, but his status as a “classical” architect was part of what saved him (Sorkin Michael). He proceeded to make administrative changes that greatly increased the efficiency of the German war economy. Speer's arrest and trial as a war criminal relates to the heavy use of slave labor brutalized by the NAZI state (“Albert Speer”). Speer was the architect for Germania before the Nazi Party fell in 1945 (History.com Staff). Architect Albert Speer was the “good Nazi” (Kate
Connolly). Speer was imprisoned for conspiracy to commit crime against peace(N.p, n.d web.). He received a prison sentence instead of the death penalty for a variety of reasons including expressing remorse and taking responsibility for Nazi crimes and by keeping a calculated distance from those crimes when he was in power(N.p., n.d. web.). Mr. Speer was the only Nazi leader at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials in 1945-46 to admit his guilt. There were those who thought he spent the rest of his life trying to expiate the horrors of the concentration camps and slave factories, and others who found his memoirs self-serving, showing the pure technician unmoved by human misery(new york times). In 1966 Albert Speer was released from Berlin’s Spandau prison after his twenty year sentence was over Speer made a career in writing his memories(new york times). Following his release in 1966, Speer had a career as a writer(Britannica). Speer was one of four defendants who expressed remorse at the Nuremberg trial(N.p, n.d web.). Speer was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1945(Britannica). He was different from his other codependents Speer claimed to kill Hitler in 1945(N.p, n.d web.). Until Speer died in 1981 he continuously publicly assert that he knew nothing about the “final solution”(Britannica). Speer was a good nazi because he was able to hitler and do as he asked. . He also helped with winning the wars that berlin had. Speer was in charge of getting the weapons manufactured. He was put in charge of making army supplies. Also Speers was on of the leaders and had a lot of power over some issues. The reason he got off so easy at the nuremberg trial is because he was a leader. Albert Speer was a great architect he built all of Hitler's most important buildings. Speer was very important to Hitler. In a book of Speers he said “if Hitler had a friend i would be that friend.” My opinion is that he was a good nazi and he respected Hitler
Most historians believed in Speer’s testimonies until Wolters’ Chronicles were released. W Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), A Bullock Hitler a Study in Tyranny (1962), and Joachim Fest The Face on the Third Reich (1970) all portray Speer as the good Nazi, the apolitical technocrat and a repentant German. Raul Hilberg, in The Destruction of the European Jews (1973) discusses in passing Speer’s involvement in the ‘Jewish affair’ but he does not delve in the matter.
Speer’s Rise in the Nazi Party Albert Speer rose from a mere architect to be one of the most influential Nazi leaders of the Third Reich, and self-admittedly Hitler’s closest friend. As a young, struggling architect Speer joined the Nazi Party as a ‘Septemberling’, and subsequently began to design many of the displays and structures that succeeded in promoting the Fuhrer Myth. Within the NSDAP Speer progressed to the position of Minister for Armaments and War Production in 1942, a reward for his superior managerial skills, and effectively utilised in the Nazi war effort. However, Speer’s rise in the NSDAP was often degraded by the members of the ‘old guard’, who thought that he had not earned his affluent position in Nazi society, but was rather a result of his friendship with Hitler. Albert Speer was born on 19th March 1905 into an upper-middle class family in the German city of Mannheim, and as a result of his families affluent position in society, they were relatively untouched by the Second World War.
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist during World War II. As a greedy businessman, he was looking to profit from the times. He took over an enamelware factory in Krakow Poland, after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. He used cheap Jewish labor in his factory to manufacture and sell pots and pans to the German Army. By 1941, he had become very wealthy from his efforts. He had power, prestige, and wealth beyond compare – he had it all, and gave little thought to what (or whose) expense he had gained it.
]Haffner, is a book which is hard to define. Only 165 pages long, Haffner has crammed more relevant information into this book than many twice its length. He observes Hitler's roller coaster ride through life and the country that he eventually took along. From Hitler's private life to the complete betrayal of Germany, Haffner evaluates the conditions and impetus for Hitler's accomplishments and failures. These include not only Hitler's psyche, but also the political arena of post World War I Europe.
Whether for good of for bad one thing you can't deny about Hitler is that he as many major accomplishments.He killed more than astonishing seven million Jewish people.Despite how bad you might think he is, he did win a Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 50.He also created more opportunities for German by getting rid of Jews from Germany.He also knew how to grow a military, the fact that he took the German Army from 100,000 soldiers to 2 million soldiers is undoubtedly impressive.
Albert Speer was born in Mannheim, Germany on the 19 March 1905, he was the son of an architect. He grew up in the town of Heidelberg in his early years, it has been said that his childhood was not one of happiness. Following in his father's footsteps, Speer studied architecture at the Institute of Technology in Berlin-Charlotteburg. He attained his licence in 1927 and became the assistant to Professor Heinrich Tessenow.
He wished to become an artist but was rejected from the Academy in Vienna. (http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/adolf-hitler) Hitler had a lot to do with Germany and he was remembered, but not because of anything positive, but because he was one of the worst coldhearted dictators Germany or the world could’ve experienced.
The Brilliant and Evil Hitler & nbsp; Hitler was both brilliant and evil. He won the following of nearly all German people, and brought a desperate country out of poverty and post-war dissolution. It was not by virtue that Hitler accomplished these things. Instead, it was through evil planning, mass rallies, emotional appeal to a vulnerable population, stirring military displays, and the eventual extermination of millions of innocent people: Jews (anyone with one or more Jewish grandparents), Communists, Negroes, the mentally ill, and anyone else in his way. He called his plan to rid the world of "inferior" human beings the "Final Solution.
Adolf Hitler came into the lime light as a man with a totally reputable objective and the antidote for poverty in Germany after the war. Hitler actually seemed to be living up to his word as he rebuilt the country and so Germans gave his more and more power.
In Hitler's early years Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. His birthplace was in an inn in Braunau, Austria near the German border(“Zapotary,
After Troost’s death in 1934 Speer was titled as chief architect and was given the task for redesigning the permanent site for the nuremberg rallies. He was responsible for creating the ‘cathedral of light’ to maximise the ‘God-like’ image of hitler at the Nuremberg Rally. In 1937 he was renamed to ‘General Building Inspector’ for construction of the ‘Reich Capital’ (GBI) and placed in charge of Hitler's ‘pet’ project, the redevelopment of ‘Germania’ the new Berlin in 1937, where he was given the task of building the ‘New Reich Chancellery’ which was to survive for the ‘thousand-year Reich’. Within a year Speer had built and designed a massive complex in the neo-classical style. The building was complete on time in January 1939, and it was intended to impress and intimidate the people who would visit it, particularly the leaders of other countries, this was to show the power of Nazi party that it has possessed. Moving on, in January 1934 Hitler gave Speer his first major commission, to build the permanent reviewing stand for the Nuremberg Really. Speer, as an Inspector for the Third Reich, was solely responsible for the design of Germania and the logistics of building Hitler’s grand capital. His ability and skill to construct the new capital resulted in gaining Hitler's trust as he proved to be an ‘efficient worker’ writes Hitler. With Hitler’s architectural interests and his dream of rebuilding Berlin to show off ‘Germania’, Albert was given the task of translating Hitler’s dream into reality, and thus he was titled ‘Generalbau- Inspector’. Due to his consistent work in Germania, Speer and Hitler’s relationship grew closer, which resulted in Speer attaining more national respect and
The way in which Speer was able to “exploit Hitler’s love for architecture” in order to obtain such a high position in Hitler’s inner circle is a portion of history that clearly favours winners. In a primary source by Nazi historian Condon (2009) Condon states that as an architect in the Nazi Party, Speer started off with relatively small projects. His first job was to modify the party headquarters and that this “launched a unique career.” This is supported by the historian Schmidt who also believes that within only a few years Speer became Hitler’s favourite architect (Schmidt, 1985,
Adolf Hitler is known to be one of the “greatest” leaders in history who had abused his powers and had shattered his country apart. Born in 1889 in Austria, Hitler abused his powers because of his greedy ego and because of his narcissism. It all became with Hitler organizing a party called the National Socialist, most popularly know as the Nazi Party. The rise of the Nazi Party was the thing that led to the start of Hitler’s rein and his abuse of power. The Nazi Party eventually led Adolf Hitler to come to rule and had given Hitler the chance to take control the entire nation.
Although she was young, Anne Frank is the greatest diarist of European history because she preserved a critical time in history, her work captured the human experience of the Holocaust, and her ideals of hope and optimism remain influential throughout our world today. Adolph Hitler was appointed the chancellor of Germany in 1933. The Nazi regime promised a better future, appealing to the unemployed, youth, and lower-middle class. Hitler was a mesmerizing speaker, capturing the dreams of many and gaining support among the public. However, this “political savior” had different intentions for the Jews.
World War II was one of the worst events in human history, but also one of the most influential. For those who dont know, World War II was started by the German Empire, and more specificaly, Adolf Hilter.