"Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial……" — Albert Speer
"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 technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically"
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Albert Speer
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17 Quotes by Albert Speer
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In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our…
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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor…
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Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from…
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Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the…
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I was not a member of the SS.
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In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information…
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No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
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