Albert Speer - The Führer's Architect Documentary 

Merci pour ces formidables documents sur la haute sphère national socialiste. Merci a vous car il y a des choses que je savait pas sur les hommes prochent du fureur.

All German words/names mispronounced. A visit to the dentist is more pleasant than hearing that. How are you going to tell anything about German history?!

What's the deal with the thumbnail of Albert with a five o'clock shadow?

Please trasládenla in Español es muy buen documental

​@@g.f.w.6402 Calm down. What are you? The Jestapo?

As they all knew

Hitlers favorite handsome artist Hitler admired him..

I find it interesting that Goering ranted about Speer being a coward... and then killed himself.

Cat Man I agree i read his book inside the third reich Very exitenstive look into Hiters Innner circle

@@gusbuckingham6663 0

bingo , big scum . he built those camps used slave labor many of them died in those conditions . evil.

@Nobody Well said. And that applied to everybody who worked closely with Hitler.

He knew. He wanted more slave labour. He was also at Posen.

@@taranullius9221 I just think he was spared because they wanted someone from Hitler's inner circle to interview for the future war documentaries.

Haunting

@@legiran9564 sure... but this denies that before this it takes more than just happenstance to where between the id and superego is not you, but the devils hand alone steering you where it will... what must first be turned away from and ignored before that alone heavy hand is all that guides you... only well said if the prior is ceremoniously ignored, than its inevitable but may not have always been... its true, but not well, its strategically said

he escaped a death punishment which he deserved

False. Modern Architecture actually predated him. They disbanded Modern Architecture.

@@algini12 He knew the conditions. People were starved and worked to death and he helped to set up these conditions.

@@algini12 They were systematically starved and worked to death. When they died they were replaced with other concentration camp slaves. They did not care if they died there were others to take their place. And many died because he used the SS for guards who could care less if prisoners perished through their brutality.

@@algini12 But maybe the fact that soo many high ranking Nazis were not sentenced to death is the issue? Speer has at times even claimed to be Hitler's only true friend. With that kind of insight one would think Speer would have done more! Speer did say sorry at the trials, which obviously went a long way in him not going to the gallows, but we should not act as if Speer was a victim of circumstances. He supported the Nazi regime through and through and is lucky to have just gotten 20 years.

The barbarity of the Nazis is obviously too be abhorred. They were the most heinous regime in history, perhaps closely followed by Stalin’s, and their key players were contemptible. However, Speer was different from the rest as he was an intellectual ( perhaps along with Canaris), and showed genuine remorse once he started serving his prison term, although his best selling book “Inside the Third Reich” to some extent was a self justification. The world subsequent to 1945 did desperately need to understand how the Hitler regime came about and why it was allowed to continue for so long. In this context, there were certainly advantages in allowing Speer to live (as long as he did pay for his crimes in the form of his 20 year jail sentence), as he did play a crucial role in contributing to that understanding. This is not to excuse him, but it did help common humanity in ensuring Hitler never happens again.

@@michaell2254 He may have shown some remorse but in his memoirs he did deny and minimize what he knew and tried to make himself look less knowledgeable regarding he Holocaust. He also used slaves that were starved and worked to death. A lot of what he wrote was tp try to make himself less complicit with the atrocities.

Regarding carpets, my grandad was a farmer, working "from sun to sun", in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, but he had persian carpets over most of his village house... Now thinking backwards, I totally dont get, where did he get them.

good point

He could not help who is father was.

While I certainly to not condone his father's actions and participation in Nazi activities and the atrocities committed, I cannot extend that to his child that could not help who he was sired by.

I also read that Speer and his grown up children didn't get along.

@@stacysatterfield2154 one of Speers is actually an advocate for European Jewish organizations

@@cameronkoontz6393 Albert's daughter is

@maximus aurelius It is well engineered, made from Krupp steel.

Hi Mr Speer, what new architecture projects are you working on at the moment? 😊

DENTIST

SPEER, YAH!

You are my role model. The world is amoral. Morality, alongside religion are the bane of our species. The theory of Ruin Value is also amazing.

Knew what?

@@user-wj6dt5bq3w He claimed that he wasn’t aware at the Nuremberg trials of the treatment of the Jews. But, he used them in his factories. He definitely knew what was happening.

Fascinating!

This is very interesting, sir.

Was the guard tower your only post or did you also work inside the prison?

No we were not allowed to have anything to do with the prisoners they had German handlers taking care of them we only guarded the prison premature and the front gate each allied nation took over the guard every 30 days American, British, French, Russian we relieved the Russians the British relieved us and the French relieved the British then the Russians relieved them it required 31 guards at night we had two roving patrol on the outside of the prison walking complete around outside of the wire there was a 20 foot chain link fence then inside of it was an electric fence then the 20 foot brick wall with towers. Each allied nation had their own wardens when they took over, they were Army colonels. I spent 60 days in my 4 years in Berlin on that guard duty. @@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338

Indeed lets hope for a Hitler body recovery service and a huge mausoleum and state funeral!

@@davidb2206 that's different from why Speer was emotionally hurt by Adolf spurring him off at their last meeting...from my sources AH at that point realized the game was up and it was through Speer s brilliant talent that enabled the military to keep them fighting several years by his management. At least Adolf could have said Good job old boy! PS Adolf was known to have exclaimed Heil Speer several times at him. Adolf got mad at him one time for letting an army group could abandon a Russian city because Germany had several years supply of a certain resource. Adolf chewed him out on that one but good. Read several great books on Speer...his son is also an architect and has worked in China..

I think the mere act of letting him go, says much about the appreciation AH had of him.

Es ist "his" nicht "their", Hitler war offensichtlich schon da, es ist sein Bunker.

Speer deliberately disobeyed and worked against Hitler's scorched earth order to destroy German infrastructure. At their last meeting, Speer told Hitler that he disobeyed and worked against his orders - invariably the result of disobeying the Fuhrer's orders would be the death penalty. So even though Hitler no doubt was angered by one of his most faithful and closest followers at defying him, Hitler must also have felt their long years of such close association, and his great appreciation of Speer's talents as architect and minister of armaments, earned Speer a reprieve, Hitler's thanks to Speer was letting him live !

Thank you very kind.

@@PeopleProfiles Your welcome.

Couldn't be the America we know, could it ?

Sadly, you are right.

FDR also interned all persons of Japanese ancestry in concentration camps, destroying their lives.

He was a staunch Republican. The snubs were probably because the Democrats were very racist then. They reached out to him to campaign for the Democrats, but he supported the Republicans. I also read that in the NYC ticker tape parade some nameless person handed him a paper bag with $10,000 in it. That's equivalent to $200,000 today.

I did not know this. Wow

I would believe that he believed it was true when he wrote it, since in time a person can argue themself into misremembering their own past. If he saw himself as a good guy (as most people do, whether or not they are), and what he did didn't align with that, he could lead himself to believe he must not have done those things, or that if he had he hadn't meant it or understood it.

Realistically, what could Speer have done at that time? Could he have gone to Himmler and said, "Stop exterminating all those people Heinrich, you bad boy!" Somehow, I don't believe that would have ended well!

@@jacksonreilly3441 no but he participated by being armament minister which helped prolong the war. He effectively served a genocidal regime. He also used forced labor which caused the deaths of thousands of people and was causing, surely to Speers knowledge, a lot of misery

Once it was safe to admit this of course

Agreed. I am fascinated by almost anything on Speer. He was a brilliant man who used his brilliance to aid a monster and I'm sure he regretted that move but the dye was cast by then and all Speer could do was go along by that point. And he was left trying to convince people he wasn't like the rest of the evil regime. ✌

Yes . I could not agree more. Two books by Speer himself you must read . 'Inside The Third Reich' and 'The Spandau Diaries' . An absolute must .

@@robertgoines1831 Regretted?? I think not. But it does make him seem almost human when people buy into his lies. Almost as if he was just an innocent person who was "forced" into being a Nazi. He didn't regret a thing, just like all the Nazi monsters.

No. Speer does not deserve to be mentioned with them.

Have another drink.

Bingo

Youre damned right . That monster should have been strung up. Lying S.O.B.

What little I read on in his later life. I would not be surprised he goose step his way to the grave. But he appear outsmarted some Allies that counted to saved his self & some of them Allies it was easy thing to do.

Yup!

Speer even did the dirty on the wife who had waited and helped him during those 20 years in Spandau. He was reported as having a sexual affair with another woman when he died in London.

That his own children did not buy in to Speer’s con job says everything I need to know.

True but remember, the kids of other Nazi criminals such as the daughter of Göring, became almost neo Nazis and most certainly antisemites as adults so the fact Speer's children went the opposite direction might confirm that he was not a die hard antisemite as the other high ranking Nazis. Parents have a huge influence on their Children.

And props to his daughter for standing up for Jewish people, that's called praxis

I guess a good architect isn’t always also a good leader

The British slaving our people for centuries were worst than the Nazis, but it is ok for the hypocrisy society

In what right mind be proud to build something evil and unbelievable,what they have in the brains of all Germany enjoying killing a innocent old,woman and children not feelings for other humans, if that was the great race, I prefer be low race and have good feelings, feelings the pain y help others. How those people live like nothing talking maybe on the tables talking how the killer going, sorry for the Germans why make them dont have sorrow not even for children, less the animals,I imagine kicking the dogs and cats, poisoning them so they dont have food.

You are so right, x-alm.

he over saw the buildings, but did not control what happened there later.

Albert Speer was a sharp and intelligent man. A genius architect BUT certainly glad he escape the gallows. You *CAN NOT* put him in with the other senior Nazis regarding war crimes and the like. He was genuinely the "Good Nazi"

Speer came across well, making it easy to fall into his pit of manipulation. Admittedly, I found myself being suckered by him. I don’t know if Speer was a hateful antisemite or not, but he obviously had no qualms in profiting from the Jews’ persecution.

Read his book too

@@gumby2241 u should go seek help for your cognitive dissonance

@@gumby2241 Who are you talking to, here? If it's to me, absolutely no one with whom I am acquainted would accuse me of supporting the Biden regime.

he didnt just know but was responsible for the deaths of thousands of slavelabourers from the concentrationcamps that he ordered for his armsfactories. he was a chronic liar and toured talkshows aroind the world -very popular in england

@@TERRANOVAofficial which makes it mystifying why not only he wasn't executed, but he was actually released after serving his term.

@@theavandenberg6876 That's because only after he had been released that evidence had begun to appear that showed his guilt...including a photograph which showed him in a cc when he always said he had never been in one...if this new evidence was available at trial, he would have been executed...he fooled a lot of people...

Back in the 70s Speer was portrayed as the "good" Nazi who was sorry for what happened. Fact was he was the ultimate slavemaster as Minister of Armorments should have been executed

He suggested to let them work instead of the ovens

True got to give devil his due

He would have been very interested in the source and quality of the workers.

All of these were possible if Germany didn't attack poland and should've let the rising economy do its job. And as a Junior Architect, yeah I agree, the Volkshalle would have been a monumental masterpiece. Imagine standing infront of that building witnessing it's sheer size.

@@three33three33 Have you ever seen the Amazon series "The man in the high castle"? In season 2 they have a scene in the Volkshalle (what the directors thought the Volkshalle would look from the inside) and it is an amazing and chilling scene.

It's horrible city planning. The whole city is meant for show, not comfortable living

Megalomaniac, inhuman architecture, which dwarfs and tried to render insignificant the human individual. Typical of the Third Reich`s "values". It would have been an architectural outrage.

When one has unlimited slave labor at one’s disposal (disposal being the accurate word here) then one can design grandiose buildings.

I was very impressed by your Video, thank you so much please make a video about his family when he was imprisoned especially his wife and children.

Speer knew entirely what was happening he was just clever enough to clean up some of his tracks. And I honestly don't know what I'd do being in a situation like that...

Agree, great documentary. Appreciate your words. Thanks for not trying to excuse Speer. When I was much younger, still in middle school, I was rather taken in by his overall story but came to my senses later as I matured and also as more and more (and more) evidence surfaced.

@@iDoTechOK You both are right ,i have been in his house in Obersalzberg and i have heard many stories about him.He was a cultivated man .Difficult to be in his position . He was not an evil man but he was not Spartacus. He close his eyes as many other good people.He wanted to stay alive . He was not comparable to many others,i think he really had some resentment

@@nazarenoorefice2104 I remember the author Gitta Sereny had said that Speer had knowledge through looking away. Her book called Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth goes into this a lot. There's also a video on it as well. Worth checking out if you haven't already.

Back when I was a history major I had a professor scold me because I tried to examine the human element of a Nazi, they told me it did not fit with history. I think if I was in Speer's shoes I don't know what I would do, part of me feels like Hitler would've forced a young and impressionable architect to his views no matter what.

Appears Albert could been 1 of the smarter one's of the Nazi bunch.

@@Houndini what about hess

@@Houndini without a doubt, tried to run with the hare and the hounds.

@@gumby2241 No proof of what ? Grumby 2

True

Without a doubt. I can still see his face when he heard his verdict. His cheeks puffed in a motion of surprise and relief.

We don’t pay homage to evil

information FM

I absolutely agree with you 💯

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Exactly l agree with you

They license other people's documentaries (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, PBS probably etc) and then just make their own thumbnails and change the title.

Man muss den Nationalsozialismus einfach lieben, na klar, was 'ne Frage.

On them

It's not quite simple , it's all about cold war , allied saved him for secret military installations and using his talent , also he kept in western German which was under allied occupation, Russians wanted him to be hanged , allied saved him before Nuremberg trial there was private group who capture him and gave deal , concept was to find out how he saves his war factory during massive bombing so they can count on war against Japan but it was all lie doesn't makes any sense, reality was to save him and use his knowledge

​@@divyeshpatel147Yeah I read about that. Also the allies wanted Speer alive to get more details about his organisation skills.

I can point out several government leaders who act like his boss! The problem is that people can become enslaved by the idea put forward by Vladimir Lenin; “The ends justify the means.” I can name several people today who have this exact same idea and are not shy about putting this vile ideology into their own words. Jacinda Adern is one that comes to mind, with her response to a reporter’s statement that her actions ‘seemed’ to be erecting two classes of people. Her appalling response was; “That is exactly what it is.” Justin Trudeau is another who infamously stated that he admired the Chinese Communist dictatorship (his exact words!) for their ability to create an economic revitalisation of their nation. Such utterances are not even a little bit different from the ideology of the Nazis, yet these people are allowed to continue to hold office, when the generation of people who fought the Nazis and their hideous regime are expected to just accept such horribly treacherous betrayal of their collective sacrifices. The sad fact is that most such dreadful regimes are only able to exist with the tacit collaboration of ordinary people, who agree with their leaders, in an obvious means of surviving a pretty horrible reality. We all would like to believe that WE would never go along with such horrors as the extermination camps, etc, but recent events have shown that everyday people are only too ready to comply with outrageous human rights violations, in ways that are quite shocking to most of us. I have watched Police officers commit acts such as running down a mentally unstable man with a patrol car, then stomping on his head, leaving him in a serious coma, something I NEVER would have believed possible. I’ve also witnessed a massed group of Police officers firing rubber bullets at the BACKS of people who were peacefully demonstrating against the trampling of their basic human rights. These and other abuses leave me with no doubt whatsoever that these people would do whatever they were ordered to do and then later make their excuse the same one put forth by defendants at Nuremberg; “I was just obeying orders.” It’s easy to SAY that we wouldn’t do this or that, but it’s a very different story when you have such a decision forced upon you at a moment’s notice. The fact is that in MOST cases, people are in fact prepared to just obey whatever orders they are given, which means that for all our protestations to the contrary, we are not so much better than the people under Nazi rule as we like to think. The pressure of the mob is a powerful goad and not as easy to ignore as many people suppose. We fear being the odd one out and if enough people have the same fear, not realising how many others may feel the same and believe that they are the only ones who do, then the result will be complicity. It was ever thus.

Having him in your bloodline must be a really hard cross to bear. i've heard that the Hitler family have changed their last name so there's no guilt by family association.

a citizen of London was not asked after the war what he thought of the Nuremberg verdict of the near death penalty for Speer which with luck reduced to twenty years in prison and for Werner von Braun a promotion to head of NASA the sentence was fair ?

@@chinawr4751 to be fair. the US and British bombed civilians targets too. so if its a war crime for the germans to do it, its a war crime for the allies to do it. I'll give von Braun a pass.

I also felt that Speer was similar to von Braun

Makes it even more shocking, no ideological neurosis and yet went on to happily murder millions of slave labour. Just your nice regular gut who went ahead and did just that. Makes it worse!

I don't think sinister describes him. Cold, calculating, clever and at the same time easily influenced.

The most culpable Nazi! A man whose education and background provided him the moral and ethical background to oppose the Nazis - instead he chose to be a criminal! Of all the War Crimes Defendants, his offenses were the most flagrant! His continued (post War) black-market business - selling art work stolen from Jewish his victims further shows that he had no remorse for his crimes. Of all the Nazis, he most richly deserved hanging.

For the same reason Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was released early from his War Crimes sentence. It very much matters who you are in this world.

If they could be of use to the allies they were let off.

Yes, Gitta Sereny's book, Albert Speer, his battle with truth, explains how in his final years, he had met and become involved with a German woman, 40, who had been an admirer and they became lovers. Speer was infatuated and happy. Whilst in London, after he appeared in a BBC interview, he returned to his hotel whereby he had a stroke. His lover was with him at the time and advised the hotel staff who called an ambulance. I think he died a few days later whilst in a London hospital, in 1981.

@@DBEdwards well, he was in a way, marrying Carin, who was rich, but I believe he truly loved her. As for his position as a top Nazi, he earned that originally due to his stellar record as a WWI ace, then continued because of his grievous wounds sustained in the 1923 putsch. Once in power he definitely became a braggart and stole every treasure not nailed down (and some which were) for his personal home decorations. Speer had little history and was more corrupted than many, and justified himself more than many. Read Spandau, I have.

@@DBEdwards How about using slave labor knowing how they were sick and starved and mistreated? How about visiting the concentration camps and lying about it? How about claiming he was mesmerized into following Hitler and felt his Will subjugated to hitler’s until he didn’t realize what he was doing? Read Spandau. I have. Excuse after excuse, cause he knew he’d get out someday. How about his kids refusing to socialize with him? They knew the truth. He’s long dead and rotting and everyone knows the truth he hid in life. Defend him all you want. The truth is out and you can’t change that.

@@DBEdwards you needn’t shout. No one is listening to you emotional rants, not even his children.

They knew he was as guilty as the others, but I think they wanted to spare one figure from Hitler's inner circle so they could have someone who could be interviewed and talk about The Third Reich from first-hand experience.

Subsequent research has shown that Speer was more knowledgeable than he ever admitted.

Albert wasn't the best husband appears. Now we know why Albert never bought her a good sharp knife.

Nice guy.

@@TheTrickster923 Ha! Actually if that is true that's funny

To be expected when you’re married to a war criminal.

that signage was more for the cameras and visitors, than the inmates. The reich tried desperatly to keep people away from these camps, or even talk about the camps to the extent possible, but at the same time they had to convince the greater population that these were 'labor' camps. One of the ways they camoflauged the purpose of these camps was to make them look like a labor camp.

It’s ironic because the sneakiness and evil and even the drive for world domination the Nazis accused the Jews of having were in fact their own traits. Truly a bunch of thugs and cowards that are directly responsible for the death of tens of millions

maybe so. but lets be real here. if hitler ever prevailed and finally broke out of europe you know darn well what he would of done to owens and every black american or african...look how he felt about slavic people jews poles russians....there would be NO blacks left alive on the planet is what... maybe all south american indians also or any nonwhites everywwhere...except for maybe zoos

@@blackyboi2885 Pure speculation. If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle.

He also did philanthropic work for the Jews after his prison sentence, gave many intervieuws, and wrote books. It is difficult to truely judge a person. Think of him what you want.

It wasnt that evil

@@kelvinsurname7051 should have been executed , he knew and even built those camps

​@@Creepexand yet you still acknowledge that it was evil.

Of course he condemned the regime after the war, at Nuremberg he was trying to survive, and after that he was still dreaming of a top job in West German industry. This was all looking out for himself, not some sudden moral clarity.

He worked that to his advantage during the trial.

@@loditx7706 I'm sure, though I don't know how much it helped. Nuremberg was weird in that, apart from Hess, who looked like a piece of drywall with all the charisma that affords, they seemed in good spirits for much of it. Göring had a big personality.

@@DarthMeteos he got deflated as the evidence piled up against him. And his personality was false pride. He wanted execution by firing squad “as befits a soldier”. Fool, he never understood. In WWII he wasn’t a soldier, he was a criminal. In prison in Nuremberg he was forced to go “cold turkey” (never understood origin of that term) off his morphine and other drugs and was put on a 1000 calorie a day diet. Improving his condition gave him the ability to posture and argue and dominate the weaker defendants. I’m with the Russians at that time. Line them all up and shoot them. Let god sort them out.

@@DarthMeteos Hess never looked good. As Angela Lansbury said in The Company of Wolves, “Never trust a man with one eyebrow.”

I think you make a very valid point and probably is the real truth