Speer took that National Socialist idea to a ridiculous extreme where everything was huge and classical and they have moats.

Speer took pains in his memoirs to argue that this theory was not supported by the facts.

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.

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.

Harrison, who had been sitting in the back with the equipment, escaped unhurt, but Bertles, Merritt and Speer were trapped in the front of the crumpled van and it took firemen more than an hour to free them.

In 1937, Speer hired him as a department head, and Wolters soon took major responsibility for Hitler's plan for the large scale reconstruction of Berlin.

Wolters ' anger towards Speer burst into the open in 1971 after Speer did a lengthy interview for Playboy, in which he again took responsibility for Nazi crimes and blamed Hitler and his associates for the war.

Wolters took a liking to Schmidt, and showed him both the original Chronik and the correspondence in which Wolters had informed Speer of the censoring of the record.

Goebbels hoped in this way to persuade Hitler to give him and his ally Speer control of domestic policy for a program of total commitment to arms production and full labour conscription, including women.

In private, he was discouraged by the failure of his and Speer ’ s campaign to gain control of the home front.

As Germany ’ s military and economic situation grew steadily worse during 1944, Goebbels renewed his push, in alliance with Speer, to wrest control of the home front away from Göring.

After a power struggle, Speer managed to get most of the economy under his control.

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.

Thus early 1950s historian of fandom Jack Speer began to label successive generations of fans as First Fandom, Second Fandom, Third Fandom, and so forth ... all the way to Seventh Fandom and beyond.

Goebbels, Speer, Göring and Himmler all saw this proposal as a power grab by Bormann and a threat to their power, and combined to block it.

Regarding exterior design of the Senate area, designer Syd Dutton said director " Stuart Baird wanted us to think about Albert Speer, the architect who did all the conceptual drawings for Hitler.

Raeder accused Dönitz and Speer of failing the Navy by mismanaging U-boat production, and said that Dönitz's National Socialism had blinded him to reality, writing: " His speech to the Hitler Youth, which was ridiculed in all circles, earned him the title of " Hitler-boy " Dönitz ".

Even in 1945, when Germany's armed forces were all but destroyed, Speer could not convince Hitler to admit defeat, or even to go on the defensive.

Austin also oversaw the removal of all wooden barracks from the Longview campus except the historic landmark known as Speer Chapel, which is the only remaining WWII-era structure and is a popular place for weddings and ceremonies.

Alliant Techsystems, Edina, and Humbert CTTS SAS were awarded an approximately contract to provide Speer 9mm GoldDot ammunition to the French Gendarmerie, French Customs, French Corrections and all 250, 000 police officers in France.

Hitler had desired to withdraw from participation, but his architect Albert Speer convinced him to participate after all, showing Hitler his plans for the German pavilion.

Only weeks after joining, Bertles, Merritt and drummer Stewie Speer narrowly escaped death after their van collided head-on with a truck on the way to a country dance ; all three were seriously injured and Bertles was left with a permanent limp.

Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler all saw this proposal as a power grab by Bormann and Lammers and a threat to their positions, and combined to block it.

In the letter to Jeanty, written on December 23, 1971, Speer wrote: " There is no doubt-I was present as Himmler announced on October 6 1943 that all Jews would be killed ... Who would believe me that I suppressed this, that it would have been easier to have written all of this in my memoirs?

Speer settled all claims with the Plaintiffs before they ever went to trial.

" Dave Halverson of GameFan likewise enjoyed the level designs and judged the new armor abilities and the music to be better than the original Mega Man X. GameSpot editors Christian Nutt and Justin Speer were appreciative of Capcom's attempt at expanding Mega Man X2 over its predecessor in all aspects, especially the story, which they called " involving ... with engaging characters ".

Wolters gave Speer's son Albert a summer job in his Düsseldorf office and a place to stay — in fact, Wolters hosted all six of the Speer children at one time or another.

Wolters later wrote that he did this to correct mistakes, to leave out extraneous matters, and " above all to delete certain parts on the basis of which Speer and one or another of his colleagues could still have been prosecuted.

While the actual meeting was casual and cordial ( in addition to the long-promised ham and wine, Wolters turned over all of the accumulated papers from Speer, the censored copy of the Chronik and the remaining balance of DM25, 000 in the School Fund Account ), Wolters later wrote, " I knew that day of that first still merry reunion that the Spandau friendship was over.

Wolters wrote to Speer on November 30, describing Speer's assignment of blame as a " dangerous oversimplification made entirely from today's perspective ... You will surely remember that in 1939 we were all of the opinion that Hitler was Germany ... < nowiki ></ nowiki > he responsibility for it was to be found in the provocative conduct by the Poles, and it was the British who made of it a world war.

Wolter's son, Fritz, suggested that had Speer mentioned Wolters even once, " it would have made all the difference ", since it would have shown that Speer acknowledged the debt he owed Wolters for his efforts during his incarceration.

Speer wrote again two months later, telling Wolters that " despite all inherent contradictions, I am very attached to you ".

The institutions surrounding the civic center are generally thought of as part of the Civic Center area, and future plans for the civic center would extend the area further west all the way to Speer Boulevard.

Goebbels and Speer worked through 1942 to persuade Hitler to dismiss Göring as economic head and allow the domestic economy to be run by a revived Cabinet headed by themselves.

Speer introduced economic reforms that the United States and Great Britain had implemented long before — namely, the full mobilization of factories for war purposes and the use of female workers.

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

All men between the ages of sixteen and sixty were required to join, over the protests of Armaments Minister Albert Speer, who noted that irreplaceable skilled workers were being removed from armaments production.

Another problem was that although Speer and Goebbels were allies, their agendas conflicted: Speer wanted absolute priority in the allocation of labour to be given to arms production, while Goebbels sought to press every able-bodied male into the army.

The appointment of Albert Speer as Minister of Armaments increased production.

On August 26, 1943, Albert Speer called a meeting with Hans Kammler, Dornberger, Gerhard Degenkolb, and Karl Otto Saur to negotiate the move of A-4 main production to an underground factory in the Harz mountains.

A major strategical defeat in the Battle of Moscow forced Albert Speer, who was appointed as Germany's armament minister in early 1942, to nationalize German war production and eliminate the worst inefficiencies.

Under Speer, German arms production improved greatly.

Speer managed to increase production significantly, at the cost of a vastly increased reliance on compulsory labour.

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.

Albert Speer noted that bearing production was dropped by as much as 67 % due to this raid.

As early as 20 September 1942, Albert Speer had warned Hitler of how important the Friedrichshafen tank engine production and the Schweinfurt ball-bearing facilities were.

Speer was certainly at the conference, and addressed the attendees in a speech on armaments production in the morning.

He also co-starred in an acclaimed television production of The Bunker ( 1981 ), playing Albert Speer to Anthony Hopkins's Hitler.