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Albert Speer

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[Wikipedia] Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served 20 years in prison.

Quotes by Albert Speer

He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from…

Annoyed

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I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

German

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“Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his…

History-politics

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One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

Devil

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Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the…

Age

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“The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed…

Communication

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“As I see it today, Hitler and Goebbels were in fact molded by the mob itself, guided by its yearnings and its…

History-politics

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“By no means would I describe Adolph Hitler as sexually normal in his relationships with women. In the case of Eva Braun…

Adolph hitler

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Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were…

Aircraft

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All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no…

Extraordinary

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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 present period…

Country

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The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not…

American people

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One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.

Evil

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It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

Bad

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In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

Information

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“I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and…

Believe in god

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At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That…

Being free

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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in…

Conditions

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I was not a member of the SS.

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No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Camps

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“...being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...”

Knowledge

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All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it…

Army

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In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing…

Bombing

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Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could…

Adjusting

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Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period…

Country

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