Albert Speer
1. Born in March 19th 1905, and the middle child of three sons, you could say Albert Speer had a life of a movie star. Having a father who was a successful architect in Mannheim, and a mother who came from a wealthy family you would say that the Speer family was more than well off. The Speer family had their own cook, kitchen maid, chamber maid, butler, chauffer, nanny and governess; Albert Speer was the upper class instead of the upper-middle which he classified himself into.
But too all-good things there are bad. Not liking his brothers, he would get picked on by them. Albert’s relationship with his parents was poor and had conjured in his mind that they didn’t have anytime for him at all or even loved him, but that his governess had shown him more affection towards him. Albert was never allowed to interact with any other children that weren’t in the upper class. He was never allowed to play in parks or even on the streets. At the age of 17 Albert met Margaret Webber to whom he fell in love with and had gotten married to after he left his studies. Wanting to become a mathematician Albert was forced to follow his father’s footsteps and become and architect. Not being able to become a mathematician and becoming an architect Albert had never really gotten to follow his dreams but it did give him the opportunity to work with one of the greatest dictators. Hitler.
2. Having wanted to establish his own architectural practice, in Albert’s early days of leaving his studies it had been unsuccessful for him. Due to the depression that had hit Germany in the 1920’s the demand on construction had a down turn, which made it possible to find any jobs for Speer. Not finding work and resigning from his assistant lecture’s position, Speer had decided to move back to Mannheim to try and create his practice there, but once again the demands for designing work was low. Realizing that there was no chance in building his practice in Mannheim he moved to Berlin in which he gained his first work of redecorating Karl Hanke district organization head quarters.
3. Not being able to find work or establish his practice, Speer’s main concern at the time in which he had entered into the Nazi party was purely for his career and not for the politics. Speer’s only contribution to the party was to drive party members in his can of official business. But Speer had ...
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...ibution to the Nazi party. Joseph’s theory of Speer was that he the ability to get himself saved from the death penalty. Joseph states that Speer realized that he could not defend his action as the ‘armaments chief’ and so decided to use his actions in the last few months of the war at reasons for reducing his sentence.
But on the other hand there was Dan van der dat looked at Speer’s early influences and looked at Speer’s personality and believed that Speers physical weakness, his brothers bullying him and had no love what so Eva from his parents, turned him into an emotional cripple. Dan van der dat believed that as a result of Speer’s childhood, Speer developed the ability to “manipulate people to compartmentalize unpleasant events” as well as being able to ignore anything that he considered unpleasant or irrelevant.
Many people had seen Speer in many different ways, but the only way to judge someone or to be able to enable judgment against a person you must understand what position that person has been in and to understand why they had been in that position.
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Speer’s well structured and thought out defence shaped historical interpretation for years to come. At Nuremberg he presented himself as a pure technician and not involved in the politics or ideology of the party. He also claimed collective responsibility for crimes against Jews but also his ignorance of the Nazi intentions. As he stated at a later time: “I just stood aside and said to myself that as long as I did not personally participate it had nothing to do with me. My toleration for the anti Semitic campaign made me responsible for it.” This admission of guilt won a fair amount of sympathy from the court. The reasons he gave for being with the Nazi party was that he was taken by Hitler’s personality and also realised that if he was to achieve his dream as an architect he will have to sell his soul to the party. This image of Speer was to be accepted for a while by most historians and was given little attention. This was probably because Speer was a little less ‘spectacular’ than Hitler’s other henchmen. There were however some suspicions. John Galbraith, a member of the US team that debriefed Speer before the Nuremberg trial, said in Life magazine 1945 that Speer’s claims contained “elements of fantasy”. He also believed that Speer’s confession was a part of his “well developed strategy of self vindication and survival.”
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