Because Adolf Hitler saw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradually brought him into his inner circle.

Due to his relative closeness to Hitler, Speer found himself in an enviable but precarious position.

By the end of the war, Speer was disillusioned by the war, by the Nazis, and with Hitler himself.

Due to his position, Speer was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself.

Because Hitler could charm people ( including Speer himself ), Speer also believed Hitler was a sociopath and megalomaniac.

According to Speer, Germany's position in the war went into decline during the siege of Stalingrad and the battle of El Alamein, when Hitler, faced with defeat in both battles, tried to hide himself from reality.

In Hitler's reticence, Speer claimed that Hitler's personal secretary, Martin Bormann, took advantage of the vacuum and controlled all information going to Hitler in a bid to gain power for himself.

Speer himself had to ally with Goebbels and other ministers to counter Göring's incompetent economic leadership.

Also, commentators on the memoirs have pronounced it likely that Speer himself came close to being assassinated by Himmler after he unwittingly put himself in the care of an SS doctor.

Supporters of Speer, such as Fest, claim Speer felt personal guilt about the Nazi genocide, and that he spent his remaining years trying to justify both to himself and the public why he had let himself be deceived.

Albert Speer made Kammler his representative for " special construction tasks ", expecting that Kammler would commit himself to working in harmony with the ministry's main construction committee.

On the north side of the plaza, straddling the River Spree, Speer planned to build the centrepiece of the new Berlin, an enormous domed building, the Volkshalle ( people's hall ), designed by Hitler himself.

According to Speer himself, it was inspired not by the Circus Maximus in Rome but by the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, which had impressed him greatly when he had visited it in 1935.

Both mythological figures were according to Speer, chosen by Hitler himself.

On his personal life, Speer remarked that Eva Braun had told him, in the middle of 1943, that Hitler was too busy, too immersed, and too tired to have sex with her.

As Albert Speer remarked, when it was safe to do so: " The Romans built arches of triumph to celebrate the big victories won by the Roman Empire, while Hitler built them to celebrate victories he had not yet won ".

When Speer remarked on the staggering cost of the building, Hitler, who laid its cornerstone on September 9, 1937, merely retorted that it would cost less than two battleships of the Bismarck class.

Nevertheless, Giesler remarked that Hitler never made plans for world domination and that to suggest as much is not only nonsense () but ' Speer Rubbish ' ().

It includes interviews with many key figures including Karl Dönitz, Albert Speer, and Anthony Eden.

( After the war, Speer admitted that the plan was unviable due to a meteorological problem-namely, that the body heat and perspiration produced by so many people inside would generate clouds and even precipitation inside the dome ).

The first reason was that many of the practicalities were commanded elsewhere: the Wehrmacht and the SS managed the military and security aspects, Fritz Sauckel as Reich Director of Labour had control over manpower and working areas, Hermann Göring and Albert Speer had total management of economic aspects in the territories and the Reich postal service administered the Eastern territories ' postal services.

Albert Speer noted that many Nazi officials dreaded making decisions in Hitler's absence.

Albert Speer, the " first architect of the Third Reich ", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realized between the years 1937-1943 when construction took place.

For four to five nights a week, and Sunday afternoons, up to 200 people would gather in the upstairs room to hear Brian Brown, Stewie Speer, Alan Lee, Graeme Morgan, Keith Hounslow, the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band and many other local jazz musicians, and Jazz Centre 44 remained a major venue for jazz in Melbourne for almost a decade.

Like Charlie Watts, Speer was one of many Australian musicians who began their career in jazz but later branched out into the pop / rock scene and, like other contemporary Australian jazz musicians who worked in popular music ( e. g. Bob Bertles, Bernie McGann, Warren Daly, Bobby Gebert, Don Burrows ) Speer was known for his ability to work across many musical genres.

Guderian's insights are important because of his association with the Panzer forces from a very early period, his high rank and involvement in many of the most important mobile operations of the war, and his eventual rise to Inspector General of Armored Troops, which involved him into regular direct interaction with Hitler and Speer in their high-level decision-making of the conduct of the last year of the war.

On 15 and 16 October 1939, the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung inside the Haus der Deutschen Kunst was complemented by the monumental Tag der Deutschen Kunst celebration of " 2, 000 years of Germanic culture " where luxuriously and pretentiously draped floats ( one of them carrying a 5 meter tall golden Nazi Reichsadler ) and thousands of actors in historical costumes paraded down Prinzregentenstraße for hours in the presence of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Albert Speer, Robert Ley, Reinhard Heydrich, and many other high-ranking Nazis, with minor events taking place in the Englischer Garten nearby.

In an interview with James P. O ' Donnell, Speer said that, during his time in Spandau Prison, he constantly reviewed such criticisms of his architecture, and eliminated ( in his opinion ) many of them.

A friend and subordinate of Speer, Wolters received the many papers which were smuggled out of Spandau Prison for Speer while he was imprisoned there, and kept them for him until Speer was released in 1966.

Wolters objected that Speer called Hitler a criminal in the draft, and Speer presciently observed that he would likely lose a good many friends were the memoirs ever to be published.

Wolters had more success fending off denazification proceedings against Speer, collecting many affidavits in Speer's favor, including one from Tessenow whom Speer had shielded during the war.

* Mahlstede Horticulture Learning Center-Named for ISU horticultural professor John P. Mahlstede, this building originally housed staff and The Speer Room, where many classes and events are held.

Between 1904 and 1919, Denver Mayor Robert Speer completed his ambitious plan for the Civic Center area, adding many civic institutions and a neoclassic park to the north of the neighborhood, and placing a leafy concrete urban canyon around Cherry Creek, creating Speer Boulevard, the neighborhood's western and southern border.

This uniquely Spanish architecture was widely used in public buildings of post-war Spain and is rooted in International classicism exemplified by Albert Speer or Mussolini's Esposizione Universale Roma.

But in March 1944 Kammler had Göring appoint him as his delegate for " special buildings " under the fighter aircraft programme, which made him one of the war economy's most important managers, and robbed Speer of much of his influence.

Speer intended to produce this result by avoiding elements of modern construction such as steel girders and reinforced concrete which are subject to weathering and by designing his buildings to withstand the impact of the wind even if the roofs and ceilings were so neglected that they no longer braced the walls.

Inevitably, after Hitler's defeat, the colossal dimensions of his buildings tended to be seen, as they were by Speer in his memoirs, as symbols of Hitler's megalomania.

After heavy bomb attacks on Berlin caused a fire in the company's plant-administration buildings, factory production minister Albert Speer redistributed work and factories around the country to lessen the risk from a single attack.

Speer expressed his views on the matter in the Four Year Plan of 1937 in his contribution Stone Not Iron in which he published a photograph of the Parthenon with the subscript: " The stone buildings of antiquity demonstrate in their condition today the permanence of natural building materials.

The physical context of the district includes the small commercial buildings that were built along district borders, E. 6th Avenue, Speer Boulevard, and Downing Street.

Albert Speer referred to Thorak as " more or less " my " sculptor, who frequently designed statues and reliefs for my buildings " and " who created the group of figures for the German pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.

Adolf Hitler was tremendously fond of the building and, in collaboration with Albert Speer, based several of the monumental buildings of the Nazi era on the design of the court.