BERLIN – Albert Speer Jr., the son of Adolf Hitler's chief architect who had his own accomplished architectural career but struggled to distance himself from his father's legacy, has died. He was 83.
Albert Speer was Hitler’s most high-ranking war minister, but just how much was he complicit in Nazi atrocities? Thirty years after his death, and 16 after Gitta Sereny’s controversial biography, ...
Gerald J. Gross, an influential publisher and editor who is credited with giving English readers a chilling look inside Nazi Germany by publishing the memoirs of one of Adolf Hitler’s closest advisors ...
“Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth,” by Gitta Sereny. Illustrated. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 757 pages. $35 Albert Speer, Hitler’s principal architect and wartime Minister of Munitions and ...
The story of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport never quite ends. Located just south of the city’s hip Kreuzberg neighborhood and only fifteen minutes by bike from the city center, the disused former Nazi ...
In “Speer Goes to Hollywood,” the Nazi tries to get a film about his life made, without admitting his own guilt. (JTA) — Historical memory, now and forever, is an extraordinarily messy thing. Most ...
Fifty years ago this month, in a prison cell in Nuremberg, a British officer handed Albert Speer a copy of his indictment for crimes against humanity. Forty-nine years ago this month he might have ...
In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012 file photo Albert Speer jr. gestures during a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Albert Speer jr., the son of Adolf Hitler's chief architect who had his own ...
Albert Speer was Hitler’s most high-ranking war minister, but just how much was he complicit in Nazi atrocities? Thirty years after his death, and 16 after Gitta Sereny’s controversial biography, ...