There has been much debate over whether Albert Speer was a ‘good Nazi’. He was seen as "the Nazi who said sorry" as he accepted responsibility at the Nuremburg trials. However‚ many people also view him as the ‘disingenuous liar’ who lied to evade a death sentence in Nuremberg and his extent of involvement and knowledge of the treatment of Jews are still debated. Speer himself endeavoured to create an image of himself as a ‘good Nazi’ and that he was merely an ambitious architect who had been misguided
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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.
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Albert Speer. The German Nazi leader Albert Speer‚ born March 19th 1905‚ died Sept. 2nd 1981‚ directed Germany’s war production‚ using slave labor‚ during World War II. Speer‚ who joined the National Socialist party in 1931‚ became Adolf Hitler’s architect‚ designing the Nuremberg stadium and other Nazi monuments. He was made minister of armaments in 1942 and expanded his planning responsibilities over most of Germany’s wartime industry in 1943. In 1946 he was sentenced to 20 years in Spandau prison
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Assess Albert Speer’s contribution to the Nazi war effort Albert Speer’s contribution to the Nazi war effort started well before the declaration of war. His work for the Nazi regime aided Adolf Hitler in lifting the morale of the German people and consolidating Nazi power which was determined to engage in armed conflict. Speer was an accomplished architect and a highly efficient organiser. Hitler addressed Berlin’s university students at a Berlin rally in 1931‚ and Speer who was in the audience
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Personalities in the twentieth century Question a) Outline the main features in the background and rise to prominence of Albert Speer Berthold Konnad Herman Albert Speer‚ born 2nd of 3 sons on March 19th 1905 into a wealthy family to father Albert Friedich Speer‚ and mother‚ Luise Mathilde Wilhelmin Hommel in March 1905‚ was a famous architect during the Second World War. Speer was 9 when World War 1 began in 1914. Wealth made it easier for his family‚ allowing them to buy whatever food was available
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Albert Speer was born in 1905 in Manheim‚ Germany. He was born into an affluent‚ upper-middle class family‚ being the 2nd of 3 boys. As a result of a distant and emotionless father and a detached mother‚ Speer’s childhood saw him being emotionally neglected. Speer had a big interest in mathematics but his father had other plans and he persuaded Speer to pursue a career in architecture like himself and his father before him. So Speer attended the Berlin Institute of technology where he completed
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Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School Year 12 HSC Modern History Personalities in the Twentieth Century Assessment Task 3 – Research and Oral Presentation Task notification and outline Weighting: 30% (Research 20%‚ Oral presentation 5%‚ Source analysis 5%) Assessment task due date: Monday June 22nd 2009‚ by 3:30pm. Scripts of presentation must be submitted via www.turnitin.com‚ details of which will be provided in class. A copy of your powerpoint and script should also be emailed to your
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When measuring the extent to which Albert Speer had a positive impact on his time‚ it is essential to identify all the contributions made by Speer that had both a positive and negative effect on Germany and the broader global world. The positive contributions made by Speer include his work as the “First Architect of the Reich” — consisting of the Germania project and the Reich Chancellery; and as Armaments Minister which significantly strengthened the Nazi war effort. However‚ all this was negated
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Despite Albert Speer’s claims‚ as Minister of Armaments‚ it is inevitable that Albert Speer was aware of the use and abuse of forced labour and the appalling conditions of inmates at concentration camps and I find it hard to believe anything contrary. As Gitta Sereny suggests‚ Speer knew a lot more than what he led on‚ he knew what he was inevitably going to find out. Although Speer states in‚ Inside the Third Reich‚ “I did not investigate‚ I did not want to know”‚ this position of knowledge places
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Nuremberg Trials‚ acclaimed author and “Good Nazi” Albert Speer has obviously left his mark on history. In this speech I will be arguing that Speer although made some positive actions in his life he had a mostly negative impact on his time. Originally an architect Albert Speer strove to transform Germany into Hitler’s dream‚ the imperial capital of the Third Reich. By designing Goebbels HQ and later ministry‚ the Nuremburg Trials and the Reich Chancellery Speer managed to accomplice this in a suitably Neo-classical
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