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Albert Speer And Germania
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Author : Charles River
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-14
Albert Speer And Germania written by Charles River and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-14 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took absolute control of Germany, and his new regime was known as the Third Reich (Third Empire). The first Germanic empire had been the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806), and the second was the German Empire (1871-1918). Hitler was determined the new Reich be more impressive and longer-lasting than any that had gone before, and the Nazis soon began referring to the Tausendjähriges Reich ("Thousand-Year Reich"). Naturally, the party's leaders believed the new empire would require a suitably impressive new capital. Hitler dreamed of building Welthauptstadt Germania ("World Capital Germania"), a super-sized city that would dwarf everything that had come before it. The new metropolis would be built in the same location as Berlin, but it was expressly designed to be the most impressive city in the world. Its heart would be the seven-kilometer long Prachtstrasse, or Boulevard of Splendors, and the buildings there and elsewhere would not just be large but gargantuan. At one end of the boulevard would be a triumphal arch so large that six of Paris' Arc de Triomphe could fit beneath it. At the opposite end would be the domed Grand Hall, containing the largest enclosed space in the world, capable of holding a staggering 180,000 people. So vast was the dome that there were concerns it might generate its own internal weather system, where clouds would form from the breath of the vast crowds below. Some predicted that rain might even fall. While Hitler may not have been an architect, there were people around who could implement his vision and put the plans to fruition. The most famous was Albert Speer, a real architect who became Hitler's friend and confidante and rose to power within the Nazi hierarchy. Speer played several roles during the war, only one of which was the project that would enlarge Berlin. There had never been plans for anything quite like Germania, but Hitler was determined the new city be complete by 1950 at the latest. Work began in 1937, but as anyone familiar with World War II knows, the Thousand-Year Reich lasted for just 12 years and Germania did not progress beyond a megalomaniacal dream. Today, virtually no trace remains of the planned Nazi super-city, but the story of its design and the misery inflicted on slave-laborers during the early stages of preparation for construction offer examples of how power without restraint can lead to the most extreme visions of the future. Albert Speer and Germania: The History of Nazi Germany's Lead Architect and His Plans for a Future German Capital examines the origins of the project, what it envisioned, and how it went during the war. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Germania like never before.
Inside The Third Reich
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Author : Albert Speer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-11-26
Inside The Third Reich written by Albert Speer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-26 with History categories.
The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man. 'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does not try to make excuses, even by implication, and is unrelenting toward himself and his associates ... Speer's full-length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Führer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet-gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped conceits endowed with an ineffable personal magic' New York Times
Albert Speer His Battle With Truth
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Author : Gitta Sereny
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Albert Speer His Battle With Truth written by Gitta Sereny and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with History categories.
From 1942 Speer was the second most powerful man in the Reich and Hitler’s right-hand man. Gitta Sereny, through twelve years of research and through many conversations with Speer, his friends and colleagues, reveals how Speer came to terms with his own acts and failures to act, his progress from moral extinction to moral self-education and the question of his real culpability in the Nazi crimes.
Speer
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Author : Martin Kitchen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-28
Speer written by Martin Kitchen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with History categories.
“Sets the record straight on Albert Speer’s assertions of ignorance of the Final Solution and claims to being the ‘good Nazi.’”—Kirkus Reviews In his bestselling 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. 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. “A devastating portrait of an empty, narcissistic and compulsively ambitious personality.”—The Wall Street Journal “Kitchen’s exhaustively researched, detailed book nails, one by one, the lies of the man who provided a thick coat of whitewash to millions of old Nazis. Its fascinating account of how the moral degradation of the chaotic Nazi regime corrupted an entire nation is a timely warning for today.”—Daily Mail (“Book of the Month”) “[An] excellent new biography . . . Kitchen has taken a wrecking ball to Speer’s mendacious and meticulously created self-image. And about time, too.”—History Today
Inside The Third Reich
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Author : Albert Speer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Inside The Third Reich written by Albert Speer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Architects categories.
"Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them." --
Germania
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Author : Brendan McNally
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-02-10
Germania written by Brendan McNally and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-10 with Fiction categories.
In their youth, Manni and Franzi, together with their brothers, Ziggy and Sebastian, captured Germany's collective imagination as the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers -- one of the most popular vaudeville acts of the old Weimar days. The ensuing years have, however, found the Jewish brothers estranged and ensconced in various occupations as the war is drawing near its end and a German surrender is imminent. Manni is traveling through the Ruhr Valley with Albert Speer, who is intent on subverting Hitler's apocalyptic plan to destroy the German industrial heartland before the Allies arrive; Franzi has become inextricably attached to Heinrich Himmler's entourage as astrologer and masseur; and Ziggy and Sebastian have each been employed in pursuits that threaten to compromise irrevocably their own safety and ideologies. Now, with the Russian noose tightening around Berlin and the remnants of the Nazi government fleeing north to Flensburg, the Loerber brothers are unexpectedly reunited. As Himmler and Speer vie to become the next Führer, deluded into believing they can strike a bargain with Eisenhower and escape their criminal fates, the Loerbers must employ all their talents -- and whatever magic they possess -- to rescue themselves and one another. Deftly written and darkly funny, Germania is an astounding adventure tale -- with subplots involving a hidden cache of Nazi gold, Hitler's miracle U-boats, and Speer's secret plan to live out his days hunting walrus in Greenland -- and a remarkably imaginative novel from a gifted new writing talent.
The Making Of A Gentleman Nazi
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Author : Baijayanti Roy
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2016
The Making Of A Gentleman Nazi written by Baijayanti Roy and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
"At the Nuremberg Trial and through his bestselling books, Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and minister, could successfully project an image of himself as the 'gentleman Nazi.' Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, this book looks at those aspects of his career that Speer retrospectively manipulated (e.g. his resistance to Hitler's Nero order), to construct this image. The evolution of the 'Speer myth,' analysed here, shows how West Germany's politics influenced Speer's narrative, as well as the impact that his image had on Federal Republic's efforts to cope with its past. This book also examines the role of historians and public intellectuals in and outside Germany in reinforcing the Speer myth--the British historian Hugh Trevor Roper and the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, among others"--Provided by publishe
Hitler S Engineers
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Author : Blaine Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2010-09-09
Hitler S Engineers written by Blaine Taylor and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-09 with History categories.
“An intriguing account of two of Nazi Germany’s top architects” and how their work prolonged the war for months—includes hundreds of photos (WWII History). A Selection of the Military Book Club. While Nazi Germany’s temporary ascendancy owed much to military skill, the talent of its engineers not only buoyed the regime but allowed it to survive longer than would normally be expected. This unique work focusing on Fritz Todt and Albert Speer is based on many previously unpublished photographs and artwork from captured Nazi records. Todt was the brilliant builder of the world’s first superhighway system, the Autobahn, and the architect of the German West Wall, the Siegfried Line, that predated the later Atlantic and East Walls. The builder of each of the wartime “Führer Headquarters,” as well as the submarine pens, Todt was killed in a still-mysterious airplane crash that may well have been a Nazi death plot, though he was given a state funeral by Hitler. Todt was succeeded as German Minister of Armaments and War Production by the Führer’s longtime personal architect, Albert Speer, who was described by the Allies after the war as having prolonged the conflict by at least a year. Called a genius by Hitler, Speer designed and built the prewar Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress rally stands and buildings. More importantly, amid the constant rain of Allied bombs and the Soviet advances from the East, Speer managed to keep the German industrial machine running until the spring of 1945, though it was driven ever further underground. He also allocated resources to fortifications and counterattacks, like the V-missile installations, against both West and East, in attempts to stave off defeat. Convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg, Speer served twenty years at Spandau Prison and remained a Nazi apologist who died in London in 1981 on the anniversary of the German invasion of Poland. Together, Todt and Speer were the pillars that propped up the Third Reich through the vicissitudes of battlefield fortune. With over three hundred photographs, this is the first work that examines their role in history’s most terrible war.
Albert Speer In The Federal Republic
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Author : Martina Christmeier
language : en
Publisher: Michael Imhof Verlag
Release Date : 2017
Albert Speer In The Federal Republic written by Martina Christmeier and has been published by Michael Imhof Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Germany categories.
Albert Speer, architect and armaments minister of the Nazi regime, successfully captured the image of a non-political technocrat after his release from prison in 1966. He had had no knowledge of the crimes of national socialism, and had been seduced by Hitler's aura. The book corrects the "spear-legend" and makes the interaction of the Germans with their past visible.
The Good Nazi
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Author : Dan Van der Vat
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1997
The Good Nazi written by Dan Van der Vat and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Explores the life of this seemingly penitent participant in the Holocaust who, in fact, ordered the eviction of 75,000 German Jews