3 Quotes & Sayings By Albert Speer

Albert Speer was a German architect and art historian, best known as the chief architect of the Nazi regime. He served as Hitler's minister of armaments and war production from 1942 to 1943. From 1943 to 1945 he served as Hitler's deputy in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production. After World War II, his book Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (1957) was a bestseller and remains one of the most popular accounts of life in Nazi Germany Read more

Albert Speer was also a prolific writer, writing many articles and three books on architecture and architecture history.

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I do not think that in those early days of September, Hitler was fully aware that he had irrevocably unleashed a world war. He had merely meant to move one step further. To be sure, he was ready to accept the risk associated with that step, just as he had been a year before during the Czech crisis; but he had prepared himself only for the risk, not really for the great war. Albert Speer
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For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's. Albert Speer