Inside the Third Reich : memoirs / by Albert Speer ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston ; introduction by Eugene Davidson

Author: Speer, Albert, 1905-1981
Uniform Title: Erinnerungen. English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [1970]
Physical Description: xx, 596 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 21 cm

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Contents

Origins and youth -- Profession and vocation -- Junction -- My catalyst -- Architectural megalomania -- Greatest assignment -- Obersalzberg -- New Chancellery -- Day in the Chancellery -- Our empire style -- Globe -- Descent begins -- Excess -- Start in my new office -- Organized improvisation -- Sins of omission -- Commander in chief Hitler -- Intrigues -- Second man in the state -- Bombs -- Hitler in the Autumn of 1943 -- Downhill -- Illness -- War thrice lost -- Blunders, secret weapons, and the SS -- Operation valkyrie -- Wave from the West -- Plunge --Doom -- Hilter's Utimatum -- Thirteenth hour -- Annihilation.

Summary

The author, Hitler's architect and later his armaments minister, was in the dictator's inner circle for almost 12 years. After the war, Speer used the enforced leisure of his 20 prison years as a war criminal to plan and write these memoirs. This is the most revealing document on the Hitler phenonmenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer.

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ISBN

9780684829494
0684829495

Note

Translation of Erinnerungen.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-570) and index.

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