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Speer: The Final Verdict

Speer: The Final Verdict

by JoachimFest (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Albert Speer is the great Enigma of Nazi Germany. Before he was thirty he had become Hitler's architect. Soon he was building the new Reich's Chancellory and had transformed the Nuremberg rallies with his cathedrals of light' and gift for stage management. In 1942 Hitler appointed him his Armaments Minister and Speer quadrupled German arms production, keeping the German Army in the field and prolonging the war. Joachim Fest examines all the phases of Speer's life and work. Precisely because of Speer's contradictions, Fest sees him as representative of the mood and susceptibilities of the German people of the time. In this brilliant and persuasive book Fest argues that Albert Speer's life helps to explain how Germany broke with its traditions in 1933 and descended so far into crime and barbarism. This book is a crowning achievement for the writer who pioneered a new school of biographical writing in the 1960s with his FACE OF THE THIRD REICH and his masterly Hitler biography, which has become a classic.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 18 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 1842124757
ISBN 13: 9781842124758
Book Overview: Albert Speer continues to be regarded as a key figure of the Nazi era 'The greatest strength of Fest's book, the reason why it deserves the hackneyed accolade 'definitive', lies not in its literary or historical merits, but in the moral intelligence with which it navigates treacherous waters' Daniel Johnson, LITERARY REVIEW Fest's final word on the Third Reich, including new evidence revealing the degree to which Speer was complicit in Nazi crimes

Author Bio
Joachim Fest was born in Berlin in 1926 and educated in Freiburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. After the war, in which he served and was taken prisoner, he worked in radio and television before becoming a full-time writer. Following Speer's release from Spandau Prison in 1966, Fest worked closely with him as the general editor of Speer's memoirs INSIDE THE THIRD REICH (1970) and SPANDAU: THE SECRET DIARIES (1976). Fest's biography of Hitler is generally regarded as the finest biography of the German dictator in any language. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his historical writing.