Albert Speer Quotes

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• One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
• 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…
• 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…
• He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were…
• I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of…
• In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships…
• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then…
• Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers…
• 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 technical…
• I was not a member of the SS.
• In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
• No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
• All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them…
• All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be…
• I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.
• It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
• One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.

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