Speer : Hitler's architect / Martin Kitchen.

Main entry:

Kitchen, Martin, author.

Title & Author:

Speer : Hitler's architect / Martin Kitchen.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

Description:

xii, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-421) and index.
1. The Young Architect -- 2. Nuremberg and Berlin -- 3. Germania -- 4. The State of German Armaments in 1942 -- 5. Minister of Armaments -- 6. Labour : Free, Forced and Slave -- 7. The Consolidation of Power -- 8. The Challenge to Power -- 9. Miracle Weapons -- 10. The End in Sight -- 11. Defeat -- 12. Nuremberg -- 13. Spandau -- 14. The Good Nazi.
Text in English.

Summary:

"In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer's claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780300190441 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0300190441 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
Speer, Albert, 1905-1981 Political and social views.
Speer, Albert 1905-1981
Cabinet officers Germany Biography.
Architects Germany Biography.
Nazis Biography.
War criminals Germany Biography.
Ministres Allemagne Biographies.
Architectes Allemagne Biographies.
Nazis Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical.
HISTORY Military World War II.
HISTORY Europe Germany.
Architects.
Cabinet officers.
Military policy.
Nazis.
Political and social views.
Politics and government.
War criminals.
Politiker.
Arkitekter.
Nazister.
Krigsförbrytare.
Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.
Germany Military policy.
Allemagne Politique et gouvernement 1933-1945.
Germany.
(fast)Speer, Albert, 1905-1981
(fast)1933 - 1945
(bisacsh)BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
(bisacsh)HISTORY / Military / World War II
(bisacsh)HISTORY / Europe / Germany
(fast)Architects
(fast)Cabinet officers
(fast)Military policy
(fast)Nazis
(fast)Political and social views
(fast)Politics and government
(fast)War criminals
(sao)Politiker
(sao)Arkitekter
(sao)Nazister
(sao)Krigsförbrytare
(fast)Germany
Tyskland
(fast)Biography

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
Biografie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291038
Call No.: BIB 234335
Status: Available

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