Speer first heard Adolf Hitler speak during an address to the combined students and faculty of Berlin University and his institute. He is honest about his own failings and guilt. A must read if you are interested in WWII. One of the Best Works of Albert Speer. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the … Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020. Albert Speer is the only leading Nazi to take responsibility for his actions during World War II. Speer joined the National Socialist Party in January 1931; he wrote "I was not choosing the NSDAP, but becoming a follower of Hitler, whose magnetic force had reached out to me the first time I saw him and had not, thereafter, released me." There was a problem loading your book clubs. Inside the Third Reich. All of the Germanic peoples will be included in it. Speer goes at great lengths to portray himself as the "good Nazi" when he tried to spare the German people by vehemently opposing Hitler's "scorched earth" policy during the closing stages of the war. First Sentence "SOME OF MY FOREFATHERS WERE SWABIANS, SOME CAME FROM POOR PEASants of the Westerwald, others from Silesia and Westphalia." Buy It Now Please try your request again later. Inside the Third Reich (TV Movie 1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. After the war, Speer used the enforced leisure of his 20 prison years as a war criminal to plan and write these memoirs. Speer paints a rarely seen portrait of the man who so many loved and hated, and he also gives the reader a clear portrayal of what the Third Reich looked like from the inside. The main characters of Inside the Third Reich novel are Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer. The flaw lies in how its author tries to tell a first-hand tale of the Third Reich while at the same time he distances himself of that regime. Speer states he became hopeful when Hitler explained how communism could be checked and Germany could recover economically. "[1]:498–507, In a 23 August 1970 review published in The New York Times, John Toland wrote that the book "is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. When I first read this book, the emphasis was upon gaining insight into Hitler’s inner circle since there were still many aspects of the Third Reich that were not well known. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. 'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. Covers a lot of ground regarding Hitler’s personality and major character flaws. It was originally broadcast on network television by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Allied POWs? Werner Heisenberg told Speer "the scientific solution had already been found and that theoretically nothing stood in the way of building such a bomb." INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is no exception. In 1971, Hollywood movie studio Paramount Pictures planned to film Speer's bestseller Inside the Third Reich. Classifications Library of Congress DD247.S63 A313 1997, DD247.S63 A313 1981 Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (April 1, 1997). Furthermore, Speer’s prison-inspired mea culpa back in the 1970s seemed like the unvarnished truth – which is how he represented it – but this is not so evident upon further reflection. Inside the Third Reich (German: Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Inside the Third Reich (German: Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2016. Being very interested in this period of history, I don't know why I had not read the book before. The film pulls no punches in portraying the men that led one of the most lethal organizations ever to exist in history. Find Inside the Third Reich by Speer, Albert at Biblio. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich; Me- moirs, trans. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them. "Inside The Third Reich" (1982). Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. But did he care about the Russian POWs? Plot: "Inside the Third Reich" tells the story of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's personal architect and reportedly "only true friend". That was then. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. "[4] Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. [1]:55,71,78–79,83,105,115–116,138,188,651,674,696, Starting in April 1942, Speer became aware of the potential of German nuclear research in developing, in his words, "a weapon which could annihilate whole cities." The author, Hitler's architect and later his armaments minister, was in the dictator's inner circle for almost 12 years. Finally, Speer states, "Because I failed at the time, I still feel, to this day, responsible for Auschwitz in a wholly personal sense. Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. It cannot be thus, it should be one thing or the other. This probably saved him from the hangman's noose. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. This led to the development of Germany's first cyclotron. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2021. 3.0 out of 5 stars. published in multiple languages including English, consists of 672 pages and is available in Paperback format for offline reading. He also cites the use of the V-2 as a terror weapon, rather than continued development of the ground-to-air defensive Waterfall rocket. The memoir is considered one of the most telling and privileged accounts of the inner workings of the Nazi regime in Germany during World War II. Inside the Third Reich Memoirs 1 Galahad edition This edition was published in October 1995 by BBS Publishing Corporation. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 1, 2020. By the autumn of 1942 however, the estimated period for developing a weapon had increased to three to four years, much too long to affect the war. I find it hard to believe that a man with such close assocations was somehow unaware of the atrocities the Nazi party were committing. Instead, development turned to a "uranium motor", for use in the navy's submarines. Albert Speer doesn't want any sympathy, nor does he want to be remembered in any special way. Something went wrong. A man born a Jew kept a diary through the Nazi era as a stroke of resistance. Please try again. It’s been decades since I read Albert’s Speer’s memoir, Inside the Third Reich (1970), and felt the need to read it again after researching the German war effort for more than a decade. I used to check it out from the college library and at 57 I still wanted one of my very own. Movie Info As a young architect, Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer) witnesses a rousing speech from Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler (Derek Jacobi). This feels like a very modern book and from it one can see how today's trends could lead to the society and government apparatus of the Third Reich. First published in 1969, it appeared in Eng… Whatever your views on Speer - particularly as to whether his admissions of guilt at the end of the war were genuine or a simple case of self-preservation - his account of Hitler's inner circle and the way in which government was conducted during this period I find simply fascinating. Well written and informative. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. Rather this is book is a warning that we must defend democracy and not allow ourselves to be dehumanised by technology and its manipulators. His "good Nazi" arguments are hardly convincing. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs is the 1969 memoir of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s principal architect and, subsequently, Minister of Armaments from 1942-1945. Played herein by Rutger Hauer, Speer is a young man of privilege in pre-Hitler Germany who happens to be a brilliant architect.Becoming a member of Hitler's inner circle, Speer is appointed the Nazi regime's master builder. [1]:488–498,569, Speer's involvement with concentration camp prisoners as a work force came about when Hitler agreed to Himmler's proposal they be used for the secret V-2 project. Inside the Third Reich This edition was published in April 1, 1997 by Simon & Schuster. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2021. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Speer does come over as a (reasonably) sane observer watching an utterly insane situation. At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his use of prisoners in the armaments factories while Minister of Armaments. Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state. Inside the Third Reich begins with Speer's childhood, before becoming Heinrich Tessenow's assistant at the Technical University of Berlin. someone who was a key decision-maker in leading Germany’s war effort. Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. In any case, Inside the Third Reich remains an interesting read from someone who was a key decision-maker in leading Germany’s war effort. Speer often comes across as disengenuine regarding his role and complicity concerning the war. Twenty years is a pitifully short sentence for a major player in Nazi Germany, and this book does nothing to redeem his actions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." Now, decades later, we have a much better understanding of the inner workings of the Third Reich and Speer’s memoirs are but one piece. "Out of our new ideology and our polit- ical will to power we will create stone documents. The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical book by Albert Speer. 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