Albert Speer - His Battle with Truth (Paperback, New edition)

This book chronicles Albert Speer's struggle with his own soul and with the collective German guilt that is Hitler's legacy. From the first moment Sereny set eyes on Speer at the Nuremberg trial, she was fascinated and spent the next four years getting to know him which led to 12 years of research. Albert Speer (1905-81) born into the German upper bourgeoisie, joined the Nazi party in 1931, met Hitler by chance, and became one of his close intimates, first in charge of a colossal rebuilding of Berlin, then (1942-5) as Minister for Armaments. So this is not only an intimate insight into the man himself, this is an exceptionally well-informed book on Hitler, the Third Reich and its terrible effects as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary man. Not an easy read, but one worth every moment for it contains a series of ghastly reminders of what the Nazi regime was like, and what Nazi domination of the world would have meant; coupled with the author's constant inquiry - how could sane and moral men and women behave as they did? It highlights the struggle between good and evil in humanity and in the end Sereny wrung out of Speer an expression of awareness that, she thinks, would have brought him a death sentence at Nuremberg instead of the 20 years he served in Spandau. (Kirkus UK)

Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him and Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Spandau Prison at the Nuremberg Trails, Speer attempted to progress from moral extinction to moral self-education. How he came to terms with his own acts and failures to act and his real culpability in Nazi war crimes are the questions at the centre of this book.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1996
Authors:	Gitta Sereny
Dimensions:	197 x 131 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	757
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-330-34697-9
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LSN:	0-330-34697-0
Barcode:	9780330346979

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