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1 ALBERT SPEER Final Script INTRODUCTION Chapter Heading A young German architect Albert Speer attended a meeting in Berlin addressed by Adolf Hitler, and was captivated by the magic of his oratory. He joined the Nazi Party 3 months later, in early Speer s brilliance and opportunism led to a rapid advancement in his career, which saw him become Hitler s favoured architect and close friend. Later appointed Minister of Armaments and Munitions, Speer was one of the most influential men in the Third Reich. He was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to 20years imprisonment, but was able to avoid the death penalty. So who was this man, who claimed total ignorance of the excesses of the Nazi regime, including the horrors of the concentration camps? ALBERT SPEER: Main Title To appreciate the impressive career of Albert Speer, it is important to understand the political climate in Germany at the time. THE RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY Chapter Heading After the failed Munich Putsch in 1921, Hitler was imprisoned for nine months, during which time he wrote Mein Kampf. After his release, the Nazi Party was reorganized, becoming a legitimate political party by 1928, contesting unsuccessfully for seats in the Reichstag elections. Germany was harshly affected by the Great Depression of In these difficult times, many German people turned to the charismatic Hitler, with his extreme views, as a solution to their problems. Hitler offered unity and strong authoritarian leadership, which appealed to traditional German values. His concept of unity would ultimately be reflected in the creation of a one-party state. Albert Speer was one who was attracted to the Nazi ideology. In the 1932 Reichstag elections, the Nazis received thirty seven and a half percent of the vote. They struck a deal with the Social Democrats and the Center Party allocating a third of the seats to each party. In return, Hitler would to named chancellor. General Von Hindenburg, president of the Weimar Republic disliked Hitler but was pressured into agreement. Within a day of becoming chancellor in1933, Hitler called for new elections. 1
2 A fire in the Reichstag started by a young communist provided a propaganda gift for Hitler, and eliminated the communists as political opponents. Despite the propaganda and the advantage of the chancellor s office behind the Nazis, they polled only 43% of the votes. Ignoring this setback, Hitler pressed on. Using threats and political power, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act on March With this, Hitler took political power away from the parliament, thus ending democracy. Hitler was dictator, with federal and state power unified under a central government. A decree in July made the Nazi Party the only legal political party in Germany. When Von Hindenburg died in July 1934, Hitler combined the offices of President and Chancellor, making himself Fuhrer or leader. But to consolidate his power, he needed the support of the army. He promised leading generals and admirals he would restore military strength by rearming, and increasing troop numbers. Hitler s major obstacle was the 2 million members of the paramilitary SA or Storm Abteilung. On June , Hitler used Heinrich Himmler s SS to murder Ernst Rohm, leader of the SA, and many other prominent officers and enemies of the Nazi Party during The Night of the Long Knives. Close to 400 murders occurred that night. In August that year, the army s high command declared an allegiance of unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler. THE NAZI STATE Chapter Heading Germany s government under Hitler was chaotic. Frequently the responsibilities of various departments overlapped, causing wastage and confusion. It has been suggested this was Hitler s divide and rule strategy, encouraging those below him such as Himmler, Goering and Bormann to be rivals, ensuring they would not unite to plot against him. Josef Goebbels was the master of propaganda, depicting Hitler as the man who had brought prosperity and national pride back to Germany. He saw to it that all forms of popular culture conformed to Nazi ideology. Motion Pictures conveyed the glory of German history, and provided a means of conveying anti-semitic ideas. Youngsters were recruited into the Hitler Youth movement, indoctrinating them with Nazi ideals. The SS and Gestapo established a system of terror to eliminate opponents and discourage dissent. 2
3 Nazi racial policy saw the establishment of anti-semitic laws. The Jewish minority lost their citizenship, businesses, professions, homes and eventually their lives. Germany s aggressive foreign policy led to its withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, and to challenge the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in Hitler marched his troops into the Rhineland, and supported Franco in the Spanish civil war. Germany and Austria were unified and, at the Munich conference, the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany. Czechoslovakia was subsequently seized and finally, the invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War II. BACKGROUND Chapter Heading Albert Speer was born in the German industrial city of Mannheim in His family was upper middle class, and both his father and grandfather were architects. Speer was not close to his parents who were virtually strangers to him. None of Speer s immediate family saw action in World War 1, but his most vivid memory of the time was of the starvation many people faced, in the so called turnip winter of Speer excelled at mathematics at school. However, his parents expected him to follow the family tradition of architecture, and so he began studying at Karlsruhe near Heidelberg. He then moved to a more distinguished technical university in Munich, and later completed his education in Berlin. He graduated in 1928 at the age of 23, and gained a well-paid academic appointment, enabling him to marry his long time sweetheart, Margarete Webber. Throughout his youth, open discussion of politics had been banned in his parents home. Albert remained apolitical, untouched by developments of the Weimar years. Speer s father was a liberal, despising Hitler as a criminal upstart, while his mother s opinion differed. A march by Storm Troopers through Heidelberg in 1931 impressed her so much she secretly joined the Nazi Party. Adolf Hitler addressed a crowd of students, including Speer, in December The speech was calm and reasonable, tailored to his audience of young, enthusiastic and educated listeners. Speer declared he was captivated by the magic of Hitler s voice, and applied for membership of the Nazi Party. He was accepted on March Speer later said he joined the Nazi Party out of the fear of communism as well as a fascination for Hitler the man, though not for his political programme. Speer, like many Germans, rejected the Treaty of Versailles, with its imposition of guilt upon Germany for World War 1. 3
4 RISE TO PROMINENCE Chapter Heading Speer s first architectural commission for the Nazis was to renovate the Berlin headquarters of the Propaganda Ministry in March1933. He then designed the backdrop for the May Day Rally that year at Templehof airfield in Berlin. Nazi standards, ten stories high were hung vertically as part of his design, and the Fuhrer was delighted with the results. Speer was then asked to organize the Nuremberg Nazi Party rally later that year, where he met Hitler for the first time. Hitler, who had a passion for architecture, began to forge a close relationship with Albert Speer who renovated the chancellor s residence. When Hitler s favourite architect Paul Troost died, Speer replaced him. His design for the 1934 Nuremberg rally with its dramatic Cathedral of Light effect brought him further credit. Speer received accolades for his work on the Berlin Olympics and gained first prize for his design of the German pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition. Speer was a workaholic who had established himself as the Nazi s leading architect. As a result he neglected his large family. In 1937, Speer had been appointed Inspector-General of Construction, the highest level in the German civil service. He was handed the most ambitious architectural project of his career, to rebuild Berlin, renamed Germania, the new capital of the anticipated thousand year Reich. It was to be filled with grandiose buildings, statues and fountains in the classical style. The whole project was the brainchild of Hitler who, in subsequent years, spent many hours going over the plans with Speer. To start the project, tens of thousands of flats had to be demolished to make way for one of many impressive avenues proposed for the new capital. This involved the eviction of thousands of Jews, on Speer s direct order. Despite all this, the Germania project was never realized due to the war. Only ornate street lights and the central avenue survived. During this period, he was commissioned to build the new Reich Chancellery, agreeing to finish it within twelve months. His ability as an organizer was clear, the deadline was met, and Hitler was greatly pleased with the result, declaring Speer a genius. Speer accumulated hundreds of trucks and barges to carry building materials to Berlin. His enormous staff could also be quickly mobilized to repair air raid damage. 4
5 On February , Fritz Todt, the Minister of Armaments and Munitions, was killed in a plane crash and Speer was named his successor. He threw himself enthusiastically into this new role. Speer developed a plan of rationalization, tripling the production of armaments in three years though efficient management, eliminating petty in-fighting, and inspiring others. For example, in 1941, 2,900 tanks were built, with their number increasing to 17,300 within three years. All this was achieved despite the loss of millions of workers to the armed forces. Speer sent a memorandum to Hitler, as part of his demand for total mobilization, urging the use of more women in the war effort, especially from the middle and upper classes. But this was contrary to Nazi ideology. Eventually, fifty-two percent of the work force was female, mostly from the working class. Speer found another means of increasing the number of workers, using forced slave labour from concentration camps, conquered nations and prisoners of war. By 1944, Speer had 14 million workers under his direction, and was responsible for the entire German war economy. He was able to maintain high production output despite intensified Allied bombing of industrial plants. Speer s remarkable organization skills enabled the repair of factories, communications and transportation infrastructure, preventing Germany from coming to a standstill. It is estimated his efforts directly enabled Germany to stay in the war for a least another year. SIGNIFICANCE & EVALUATION Chapter Heading At the Nuremberg trials, Albert Speer was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes primarily for his use of forced labour. His expressions of regret and acceptance of responsibility allowed him to escape the death penalty, receiving instead a sentence of twenty years imprisonment. But, was he really the good Nazi? Speer claimed to be first and foremost an architect and organizer; that he was disinterested in party politics and ignorant of the excesses of the Nazi regime, particularly in relation to the fate of the Jews. Speer gave his reasons for joining the Nazi Party as fear of communism, a fascination for Hitler and the imposition of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Historians have been skeptical about this. Dan van der Vat suggests that it is only the committed who join a party long before it is elected to office, as opposed to the bandwagon effect the Nazis experienced after January
6 Ian Kershaw points out that the electoral success of September 1930 was the political breakthrough that meant that many of the respectable middle class felt ready to join the party. SPEER INTERVIEW For Speer it was exhilarating, to have the most powerful man in Germany as his close friend. Only Speer, Bormann and Goering were permitted to have a house inside the three-kilometre inner security fence at the Berghof, Hitler s Bavarian residence. Historian Gitta Sereny wrote: He was ecstatic upon entering Hitler s service blinkered from the very beginning to Hitler s monstrous obsessions oblivious to the suffering they would immediately cause. It is Speer s work on the Germania project that has led historians to question his attitude toward the Jews. Thousands of Berliners were evicted from flats earmarked for demolition, though alternate accommodation had to be found for displaced non-jews. This was accomplished, on Speer s orders, by evicting Jewish residents from their homes, often at only an hour s notice. The Jewish population was then forced into ghettos, and eventually concentration camps and death. At the Nuremberg trials the issue of the Jews flats was never investigated. All Speer conceded was that he knew Jews were evacuated from Germany, while denying any personal involvement. It could be argued that Speer s enthusiasm for the design and significance of Germania, demonstrated that he was as much of a megalomaniac as Hitler. Speer s success as Armaments Minister can be attributed to the use of forced labour, the exploitation of foreign workers and prisoners of war. Approximately five million men and women were exploited in this way during the war. Most lived and worked in hellish conditions. At the Dora camp in southern Germany, 40,000 toiled to build the V2 rockets. They worked for eighteen hours a day, slept underground, had no heating, ventilation or running water, and used half barrels for toilets. One in three workers died here. The responsibility for the consignment of labour was Speer s deputy Fritz Sauckel. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sauckel, however, was only carrying out Speer s orders. Speer had visited the Dora missile factory and Mauthausen camp in Austria and witnessed the deplorable conditions. Speer ordered improvements and insisted that workers at least receive an adequate diet. But this was primarily to insure greater productivity. 6
7 This also undermines his claim that he knew little of conditions in the camps. Germany s war effort might have almost ground to a halt without his organizational skills. It is how he achieved this is questionable. Many historians doubt Speer s ignorance of the anti-semitic agenda of his colleagues and the Final Solution of the Jews. Evidence reveals he attended a meeting in October 1943 in Posen, Poland, where Himmler divulged the secret of the Final Solution to a group of regional leaders. Speer said he left the meeting before this information was given. Researchers later examined the original Chronicle, which was the daily account of Speer s work from January 1941 to December It was written by his assistant Rudolf Wolters, and suggests that Speer knew about the key contents of Himmler s meeting in Posen. In his book Inside the Third Reich Speer describes a meeting with a friend, Karl Hanke, which occurred nine months after the Posen meeting, where Speer was advised: never to accept an invitation to inspect a concentration camp in Upper Silesia (in Poland) He had seen something there which he was not permitted to describe and moreover could not describe. Speer wrote in reply: I did not query him. I did not query Himmler. I did not query Hitler. I did not speak with personal friends. I did not investigate for I did not want to know what was happening there. It could be argued that he had knowledge of, if not involvement in, what was happening to the Jews. Speer s relationship with Hitler began to deteriorate when illness kept him away from the Fuhrer s headquarters in1944. Early the following year, Speer was convinced the war was lost. He claimed at Nuremberg that at one stage he planned to kill Hitler by introducing poison gas into the Fuhrer s bunker through a ventilation shaft. This apparently was thwarted by increased security at the bunker, and limited access to the ventilation system. Speer asserted that he defied Hitler s Scorched Earth policy aimed at destroying the infrastructure of Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Poland. His act of resistance saved thousands of industrial plants, bridges and essential services, and was viewed favourably at Nuremberg. However Speer s motives are widely debated. 7
8 Imprisoned at Spandau Prison outside of Berlin, Albert Speer occupied his days with strolling in the gardens and tending the plants. He secretly wrote his memoirs, and when released from prison in 1966, he published two bestselling autobiographies: Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. He died of natural causes in 1981, while visiting London. Albert Speer has created much historical controversy. Some view him as a high ranking Nazi official who ignored the atrocities of the regime, while utilizing slave labour to maintain the war effort. To others, he was an apolitical but ambitious man, ignorant of the genocide and cruelty around him. Whatever the case, his convincing evidence at Nuremberg, enabled him to avoid the hangman. 8
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