Speer,Albert

Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich, London Phoenix (1995). 

Three of the most fanatical Nazi leaders, Bormann, Goebbels and Ley, repeatedly urged Hitler to unleash nerve gas. Goebbels wanted to use it against British cities in revenge for the destruction of Dresden. Albert Speer, Minister for Armaments in the Third Reich, recalled a secret conversation with labour leader Robert Ley by... 

See Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (London, 1970). During his trial at Nuremburg, Speer also claimed that he considered assassinating Hitler in 1945 by introducing nerve gas into the ventilating system of the Fiihrerbunker. 

Taylor, B. (2010). Hitler s engineers Eritz Todt and Albert Speer - Master builders erf the third Reich. Havertown Casemate Publishers. 

International Military Tribunal (IMT), Speer Testimony, 21 June 1946 Nuremberg Documents, NI-6788, Affidavit Otto Ambros, i May 1947 Nuremberg Documents, NI-9772, Affidavit Albert Palm, 24 July 1947 Film and Video Archive... 

The palimpsest of the Holocaust surrounds the site. Nicolai Ouroussoff asserts, The location could not be more apt. During the war, this was the administrative locus of Hitler s killing machine. His chancellery building, designed by Albert Speer and since demolished, was a few hundred yards away just to the south his bunker... 

An outspoken example of the tension between the exercise of the technical expertise, and the attainment of the public good, was Albert Speer s self-defense for his functioning as Hitler s architect and (1942-1945) Minister of Armaments and War Production. His plea was that he considered himself as a pure technician, solely concerned with his technical skills, and that he had mentally kept his functioning as a trained architect separate from the moral implications and political reflection about the overall goals and consequences of Nazism (Sammons 1993, p. 179). In a memory to Hitler, he wrote ... 

Sammons, J. L. (1993). Rebellious ethics and Albert Speer. (Reprinted as Albert Speer ethics, architecture and technology). In E. Katz (2006). Death by design Science, technology and engineering in Nazi Germany (pp. 179-200). New York Pearson Education. 

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