Will The Real Albert Speer Please Stand Up? The Many Faces of Hitler's Architect
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ePUB
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Ja
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Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
23.04.2014
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Dreamcatcher BooksSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
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435 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781533781703
Reader review: "A well documented study of Albert Speer, the 'good Nazi' who escaped the gallows at the Nuremberg trials...Well written and a great read."
He was Hitler's architect, his minister of armaments, and by many accounts his chosen successor. He was the man who defied expectations and escaped the noose at Nuremberg. He was, some said, the only Nazi who expressed genuine remorse.
But which version of Albert Speer was real?
Few figures from the Third Reich are as compelling or as contested as Speer. A man of extraordinary organisational genius, he drove German wartime production to its peak even as resources dwindled, wielding more power than any Nazi leader save Hitler himself. Yet at Nuremberg, where his co-defendants were sentenced to death, Speer received just twenty years. Was this justice or a masterclass in self-reinvention?
This book interrogates the many faces of Albert Speer. Drawing on the evidence from the events leading up to Nuremberg and the trial itself, it examines whether Speer was genuinely less culpable than the other defendants, or whether he was simply more calculating a man who had spent years perfecting the art of telling people exactly what they wanted to hear. In doing so, it raises a question that cuts to the heart of how we judge those complicit in atrocity: Did Speer receive adequate punishment for his role in one of history's greatest crimes?
What his trial reveals about his personality and why it still matters today is more unsettling than any verdict.
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