Albert Speer's 'History Highlights Both Virtues And Faults'

“History highlights both virtues and faults”. To what extent does the study of Albert Speer support this view.

Throughout the study of Albert Speer, history certainly highlights both virtues and faults. Albert Speer was an important figure throughout German history through his role in Nazi Germany via the Minister of Weapons and Munitions then later the Minister of Armaments and War Production but also his architectural work for the Nazis. Along with these virtues of Speer came his faults as well. Speer was accused of being a liar and a bad Nazi where he supposedly destroyed flats of which many were Jewish. Therefore in essence history does highlight both virtue and fault through the study of Albert Speer.
In 1934 Speer was appointed to
This decision was the scorched earth policy announced by Hitler for the destruction of everything that could be used by invading forces, hence, the entire German land including infrastructure. Speer once mentioned that “serving the Fuhrer and serving Germany were not the same thing”. It was this decision made by Speer that would have saved millions of Germans from poverty and slavery. Therefore it is seen that this virtue has impacted on history or else there would not be a Germany to this present
It is questionable whether Speer was at the Posen Meeting in 1943 as the concentration camp was mentioned at the meeting. Speer claimed to have left by then although sources suggest that this was the turning point in his faults to convict him at the Nuremburg trials for knowledge of the concentration camps and the Jewish people. Speer had said in an interview that he had “tolerated” Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies suggesting he did not know about the persecution of the Jewish people. He may not have been supporting this view but his choice to ignore it is viewed as his greatest fault and this adds to why he is counted as an important figure to German history having survived the death penalty for all his convictions at the Nuremburg trials were he pleaded innocent to two counts of murder and persecution and knowledge of the concentration camps that the Jews were involved in. Speer instead received 20 years prison sentence at the Spandau prison. This shows historians as well as others that Albert Speer’s purpose was to get to the top of the pile in the Nazi regime, to get on top of Hitler, although his virtues came along with major faults to stumble his passage. As for his Nuremburg trial convictions historian Ullrich said that “If the judges at Nuremburg had known