At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure. — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“...being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...” — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart. — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder. — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed from Hitler's… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“As I see it today, Hitler and Goebbels were in fact molded by the mob itself, guided by its yearnings and its daydreams. Of… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“By no means would I describe Adolph Hitler as sexually normal in his relationships with women. In the case of Eva Braun in particular,… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
