Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friendâhis "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years. Out of hundreds of hours of interviews, Sereny unravels the threads of Speer's personality: the genius that made him indispensable to the German war machine, the conscience that drove him to repent, and the emotional wounds that made him susceptible to Hitler's lethal magnetism. Read as an inside account of the Third Reich, or as a revelatory unsparing yet compassionate study of the human capacity for evil, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth is a triumph.
"Fascinating...Not only a major addition to our knowledge of the Third Reich, but a stunning attempt to understand the nature of good and evil."âNewsday
"More than a biography...It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler."âSan Francisco Chronicle
Sereny takes readers through the emotional desert of Speer's childhood and marriage, his architectural co-creation with Hitler, and his service as Minister of Munitions and Armaments, when his brutal use of slave labor extended a lost war. The riveting tale of an extraordinary man who made a stunning Faustian bargain, Speer's story is also an unforgettable study of how good exists with evil. Photos.
Categories:
- History
- World
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Sereny, Gitta
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :1996-10-29
Number Of Pages : 800
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0679768122
ISBN-13 : 9780679768128
Item weight : 1.5 lb
Dimensions : 1.97 in x 5.2 in x 7.95 in
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