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BY G. MacLEOD ROSS
If Is 22" years sive Albert
Speer's responsibility for 'Nazi
crimes against Society was first'
called in question, and as one
who spent some fifteen years on
weapon • engineering • it is
impossible not to ad,niire this
ro.
gi es such an intimate ,portruit of
Hitler over the first years of his
regime, before Speer became a
member of the Cabinet. It is of
interest too, since it provides
aut. h enticatiou, - were any
needed, 'of the deterioration of
Ilitler's faculties, onee stuck
deserted him. Finally it is ,
young architect, who could • notewOrthy as the eon fessiOn of
organise the German weapons .a marl who, as „indicated above.,
industry ' to Make the
• , nastily . kilo W I eOge a ble witnesses
tremendrt
ous exeions ic did,
. , believed to be-nyt guilty . As sou
.... .„ always tst the face of: crusltiligs .. .
trfi.sosnoss•,s,...s:, . ,- ., -,sys.,.,))•, ..- - - -.• , •- ,s -read --the-on.sitati.-vn:i.nstons4.4,,,tosisas.
pornhitrgn a.t•tas*.t..,,,,ki„ thk" time ., .. • •
ini pressidn..„Usat ,peer re rue, to
, (�vettiter 1.)48, a- 1)r. Gilbk.,rt-....•
a spare us anS de.tail touching on
- of .- Princton '1'iliversity ,'
tits complicity with the dreary
psychologist attaehed the
• Nuremberg Trial, published a
• book "Nuremberg Diary ", which
gave his impressions of .the
several top -rank Nits wit h
whom Gilbert spent nine months
filled with interview's or all say
Speer, because Gilbert's
contention was that Speer ney er
was a Nazi, and had ..nO
responsibility ,,for Party 'policies.
hle only joined the CsIsinet- in
February 1912. when he was
translated from a purely pri\ ati
role as „Hitler's tame architect to
secondra in en w ho m
p rogperity had
inflated. lit' semis C011SUIlled to
CliA',16Se the content of the most
secret corners of• his tined and to
present them to wolld opinion,
so 'that he may be. judged once
more, this time:at the bar of
world opinioe. Andit has to be
admit cod t hat hIs testarnent
answers the question yl,hich still
-haunts the centuries "What is
.1ruthr
become the late Dr. Tocit's
The first third of a marvellous
successor as Nlinisier of
chroniele t. is a complete,
Armaments and Mueitions. Th€,
• cOntinuous. and observant
sentence he drew of, 20 years
account of Henn. 11 c
itler's ourt,
was far too -severe for the charge ' ,
A iew from the inside. by a
that' he had is)Ilectiye -
completely detached reporter.
responsibility for policy, bat
Speer was a budding architect
Speer was the only official who
when he Nrst came to Hitler's
had the moral courage to accept.
sand on the death of the
able Troost, 'peer at the age.of '
COnsequences. :"Fo his credit he , ,
2b was -chosen to replace him as
-defied Hitler in- the • final s&ges''' •
the Fuhrer's personal arehitect.-
of the demise of the •Third •
--What ' an opportunity for a
Fteich, and he .ounterrnanded•
sss'Annagssail&istnittfrirrb'fesStonals ,•
•
to become the protege of saph a
earth policy when defeat became sympathetic patrOn. From then
'absolutely certain , •
on his job • was to design
So much then by way of
grandiose Ott -bile , buildings,
' •. introducing the subject who ..! •
concrete trophies of tjitiniph,
spent . his -0 years °I.. Cycl6pean palaces, "CM greatest'
incarceration, writing the book,
• assembly. hall:iiithe world". All
. '*1-., which was 'first published in.
expreSsioils . •of ' Hitler's
Germany; in 1969, and ohly.
architectural megalomania,. „ •
appeareds in translation in 1970. ..
Itiller
It is of great interest becin 1936 when marched
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and fail piffle T Irditekh
into the Rhineland, he L'Iassed it
as the most daring of his
undertakings and he felt, had
Edward VIWbeen on the throne
of England, everything would
have been different. At the
Olympic Games everything was
done to •(.6nvey 10 foreign -guests
an 'impression of a peace -minded -
g -.
away his feelings. Attempt the becauSe it was expected of the at 1 tIO Liming the non-aggressibirs'4) Hitler's system .which made kt abuses be corrected. In the ts
slightest . intimacy __and, Hitler guests that they subscribe to the pact with Russia. Ribbentrop easy to escape observing victorious dayof 1940, decency
put1st ulpvaas wall War
advice
kof his. Speer 100 marks. The Goering and 06ebbes favouring really did not know what began gamble victory away.
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War Eftort.. Every Sunday cost .was the warmonger then, 'with , inhuman cruelties. "And -while I was „lost and Hitler began ,to
own physician Hoffman, that
hilaiitildest andgot atillt(IceprHitiMerorgealvrts. conversation - became very peace. .Then when the Allies, on November, 9th, 1938 and Part 2 follows.next-week.
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wearisOme, being mainly a Britain and France, declared war ended at Auschwitz, whether I *1.. "Inside the Third Reich":by
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him his confidence. From then experiences, which . always air of infallibility,. he assured unimportantwhen lconsider ' *
on Morel! became. what Hitler includedthe anomaly of the • everyone, there would be no what horrors I -ought to have
ciermany , -but vyhen the crowd 'called his l'Injection Master" and .English artillery stopping for tea •tighting. But when' Churchill known about. '' You ask for
Hitler felt that was going 'a little first from the attentions of this at Ireictasi:loYu'pg Speer NA, as still consternation reigned in Berlin . ••apoliagies, are pOssi.hle." • ., ,
cheered the French coetingent, while his 'condition improved at , entered . , the War Cabinet justification? 1 have Mane. No
too far, for he 'did not' want near -quack, by the .end of 1937' more or less an adrnirr of The success in Poland As for Hitler's system, it bore
sallter .recoaniliation or peace. In his stomach ailment reaeted;and•
Hitler's. The AdOlf
•• itier restored Hitler's morale for_ the within it the seeds . of its own
., .. ,
lay t ,. I he ' buildings....pittanecisos.bt.),:nsAse-towil'assstietspciaflem,04 viyeip, Othi,')*AIIXSAW-qi44.014';s4D4W-Ahi-essAllW,,,W4-114.t.-YR-g•Mat4-2-3.%.4403)Fassocisiatmcy*sup)icta,41t-mtp 7.jrjW.:,2Utt):'1,1,e;,1,4.'".., .40,4'600 .•16111''",,,IIMWNT4Z"XWAll:4:44
expressed anlmperial gtors-that- (;nvisaged'a -short . life.' However, and •conceited students so that paraded for war covered in J do public criticism ' and no
his plans 'and ' aims never .
could only. be won by war. Rormann Sent his soitto such. a flovvers, while when Hitler set demand could arise that the --
At this time Hitler was stittin , ,changed, yvhile.. his excessive school as n• pupisliment. There forth, for the Polish front, no
control of his temper and it W‘itS passion for building merely was no humour in' Hitler and he . one cheered his , departure.. •"I
possible to disagree with him on camouflaged his plans,to deee.iNe left joking to Others. When he found a than who lost his temper
.technical matters, for he •never the p0pulaee. ".•
foreed his opinion on a In Febreary 1919 another did laugh it was always at the over trivialities" writes Sp-eer.
expense of someone else. Ile After France fell, ' 'Speer's
- to adopt Hitler's fate which -., would eventually would never alter a view Once. adoration of Hitler revived. "I
Speer forced
expressed, y'et . he.' seemed became conviiCed'he was a great
professional. technician', nor was '''S'rep was taken into the web of
viewpoint.; It was this very require an accounting, for -faders embarrassed in the presence of s German -figui-e-",but the people
equality of opinion .yvhich assumed the post of Commander men -of high ' professional were apathetic and .there was no
Q n a to led Speer, when he became in Chief of the Armed Forces. 'attainment, INhO ,is,, perhaps'''. victors/ parade for fear of British
Nlinister of 'Armaments, to ousting Blomberg and making why, he •• chose Speer as his air raidS.
assume greator initiatiKe.....,,than• ' Keitel his . Chief of Staff, -von protege; .an..ohserver. called hint . :BM Hitler's anodyne was still *ii
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others, ' of Hitler's. staff. Neurath was superseded by "Hitler's unrequited love When. "buildings". "When - we have q •
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Nesertheless.,Ilitler's two police Ribbentrop and von Brauchwitz Goering. was designated Hitler's finished Berlin, Paris will be a
dogswere the only:things which replaced von Fritschs Army C. successor, theaformer was made mere shadow. Why shOuld we
'consistently- refused to " obey., in' C. A month later German to promise that Speer would not destroy it?"
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holder, who becomes rape the well stockeds-shops,„ crazy. Hitler's Arch orrriump,h be likea chili:Vs garrie in a . 49
him. But Speer notes: "There is troops marehed.into Austria and be.., replaced _but would be . The Russian • failure in .-":"-- 4
a special trap for'every holder of Hitler sent for a ' map to allowed , to continue the "model Finland confirmed the view the ShOulder KoalsW
p o wer: Servility becomes demonstrate to his sych.ophants city", the plans for which
etdemic among hientourage hopinchedCzechoslovaki, when Soviet - was poorly organised; its . ..... ....ss..._._...
and they , compete to show was.. ImMediately the party brought forth the ,. remark: Hitler as telling Keitel "a 4-
devotion. This reacts ori the' leaders swarmed into Vienna. to sey ' • it
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"You've all gone completely campaign against Russia would .
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ep hSpeers architect fathereqUipment too was poor and POR K 0
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corrupted ." . . - ,_ • ,,while Hitler put 00 an extremely. (after the Arc de Tridmphe) was - sandbox". Meanwhile Hess had LARGE
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Very soon Speer became one effective performance - of the di .' for completion by 1950 Vile mad .and „flown to England,
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of 'the inner foursome, :along "enraged- leader" • sfor • the together, . With ' all the' other solo 'that Bormann succeeded r to
with .-Goering.---and -:.-Bormann- - •edification of.. the .' western • buildings 'My only. wislis-Speer, his place •in the hierarchy,Hitler-
which . was known as Powers.'
... •-din • „...--•• .... • I ••••••...• .
. •-, _.,- - - s- • - is' to live 'to See- Alt', these was noW divig Europe up
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ping., .r.,544,§7.gpx.§....,__,,.,_,,,.._.,.• ..,..,_ ,,,-.-7,,jbe,snr,,sendels.o.EsSisdeicenlandss.sklikliau,'!„„,s_ _ Llitlees sletelless,•,. __with' the_lanss bY___a_norts,h.sonths
'''' .•1: _".Surprisingly Hitler, was poor, follOwed, .and• Hitler.,followers folloWe
• . , which initiated the architecture line through the, Urals. On June
so Borrnann 'arranged that he were ilOw convinced - of • joss,--6f•most of theS'e". buildings were 21st, 1941,:- Hitler ' reached the
receive: a royalty from every instanshilitss The synagogues rn .at( to scale and _noarchitect turning point in his infamous
pDstage • stamp • sold, while the Berlin were still smouldering and ' could have done better. 'Thene),V- regimes for he attaeked.Russia in
standard of ' living of the Hitler. made Some Motions along Reichstag 'which was purellitler, t he • 'Same • sPirit of
Gaulehers was , set by the lines that he did not want ' . .. . irresponsibility,' , once . the '
subscriptions which 13ormann such excesses, -hat Goebbels had a' dome - 800 Net in .decision '. was , made, ' as',
forced from . IndustrY, an act. alwaYs presented them to him a. ,•-diameter. Hitler's Palace was 150 characterised all Te steps in his'
which made him moze-powerfttls...-a,'NFac-compli. - . • times bigger 'than Bisinarek's, •progression..
The •day by, day life 'of the The new*Chance-ilery building al';'d it rejoiced Hitler that..., , In 1944 we find -•Speer."
OberSalzbergers -heeame, deadly,- WaS 'finished bY,Speer two da,' . foreign diplomats:would:have to ' examining his . conscience.. He.
• dull, for' not only did,t•hey• clo. earlier than he promised, when walk a quarter of a mile within . was dismayed that Hitler was
nothing; but Hitler forbad any Hitler • cha4ced to come 'and, • the building, before the passages. not living' up to his original
political discussiOn.,Eva Brown inspect it. The . four . Viiines brought, them ' ` to Hitler'S
:, - . ';l
image; he was, ' anxious over
• 'was no Mm
adame. Pompadour and looked down 'from gilded panels: 'presence: Hitlers ,deteriorating healthhe
dared not leavethe house in ease ' 'Wisdom.' spredenee, Fortitude But in 1939 the morale of the- hoped for . some let up against •
. , ch.u•,
she 'might, meets the .". elegant and Justice. Hitler wastfelighted. -people -b&dor,. Hitler thercheSbut the hatred ofegan to'
GOerings in the hall Hitler as and bestowed- on Speer • the forsook -the masses 'then, and the Jews. seemed so much a
opposed to the blood sports to (olden Party Badge,. as well a• when unpopular measures were matter of course that he gave it-
which Goering was- addicted: one ofs,his own waLer colours. foreshadowed he , had steel 'no serious. thought, 'His mind
"anybody with a fat belly..can But when the workmen' tried to shutters put 00 all dears and • .was divided, .0n one 'side the
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, shoot an'' _animal .doWn," from a' move .,the...B.ismarck. bust iron; • windows of the .buildings in the idealised picture of HitlerOri
distance"' rehiarked Hitler, Then ' the ,original building, they brok(i.. - Adolf lTTLler Plat,. Abckit-th7eth-6.--7.-other-----alf'-the' -vulgar
.. the latter • would regale the ' the , head off _ at ,the. necks and .sattie time Goering was assuring 'antissemitie manifestationt.
company 'with the account of , Speer.* to' g et an exact copy him that "no enemy plane shall , -Whattidi'd he know of the latter?,
how he forced Schuschnigg of made to which a patina „Of. age enter 'Germany".
, _ No longer does Speer insist there
Austria to yield .by feigning a fit 'was giveri'by steeping the whole' War' began With Hitler was a' craze *fdr secrecy ' in
____ofragesin ',another fit,teordereci-
Niemoller .to a. concentration Although he wasCorfimander
camp for life. Onc. bn 193.6' he in Chief, Hitler -would not allow
had dOubts, when he- said: any military' leaders to dine
"There are two pOssibiiities for him; so that -the closed circle of
me. Win all. my"plaas or fail. If Is- his intimates . was never
win I Shall be one -of the greatest ihcreased. Goering ate once' at
men inshistory. If I lose I shall Hitler's table•laat found the food
be Condemned, despised,- and "rotten and the company dull":
darnned". It wasin the* faCe . of. 'Hess required a special diet. s'o. •
all this self -revelation' that Speer he 'wastold to, eat at 'home.
asked hinaSelf, "Why can t 1 'Sundays was a , one dish day;',
make Hitler my friend? What is 'which . reduced the, participants
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