Dimensions
156 x 233 x 39mm
"Diaries are usually the accompaniment of a lived life. This one stands in place of a life." So says Albert Speer, formerly Hitler's architect, who became the undisputed master of the German war machine, responsible for conscripted foreign labour in the Third Reich. Sentenced at Nuremberg after pleading guilty, the only defendant to do so, he began to keep this secret diary (much of it written on toilet paper) to save himself from being tormented by his demons.
Upon his release, after twenty years of imprisonment, at the age of 60, he found 25,000 of the smuggled pages waiting for him. From that he shaped this book - a deeply moving human document, an insight into power bearers who have lost their power, and one of the most convincingly honest accounts of the Nazi era.
