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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ ʃ p ɛər /; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ⓘ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.
Albert Speer, German architect who was Adolf Hitler’s chief architect (1933–45) and minister for armaments and war production (1942–45). After World War II, Speer was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Albert Speer was the Nazi Party’s chief architect, a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and the brains behind the Nazi military production machine. Under his leadership, the Nazis implemented a brutal regime of slave labour in armaments factories across Germany.
As Allied troops and the U.N. War Crimes Commission closed in on Flensburg, one Nazi emerged as a man of particular interest: Albert Speer, the brilliant architect, minister of armaments and war...
A new documentary explores how Albert Speer, one of Hitler's right-hand men, portrayed himself as the "good Nazi" and spread this myth to a mass media level.
Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a trained architect. After joining the Nazi Party in 1930, Speer became Adolf Hitler's personal architect. In 1942, he was named Minister of Armaments and Munitions, assuming significant responsibility for the German war economy.
Speer, Albert (1905–81). German architect of the Nazi period (1933–45). He studied under Bestelmeyer, Billing, and Tessenow, and rose to prominence on the death of Troost, becoming Adolf Hitler's (1889–1945) friend, confidant, and architect from 1934.
On October 6, 1943, Dr. Albert Speer, Reich minister of armaments and war production for the Third Reich, gave a 50-minute address to the assembled top officials of Nazi Germany at Posen Castle in occupied Poland’s Reich Gau (Region) of Wartheland on the critical state of World War II at that point.
Speer, Jr., an eighty-two-year-old with a perennially serious expression and a fondness for energetic hand motions, is one of Germany’s best-known urban planners.
Mar 19, 1905 - Sep 1, 1981. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A...