Dimensions
137 x 216 x 31mm
A masterly portrait of that man of contradictions, Albert Speer.
Albert Speer is the great enigma of Nazi Germany. Before he was thirty he had become Hitler's architect. Soon he was building the new Reich's Chancellory and had transformed the Nuremberg rallies with his "cathedrals of light" and gift for stage management. In 1942 Hitler appointed him his Armaments Minister and Speer quadrupled German arms production, keeping Germany in the field and prolonging the war.
Joachim Fest examines all the phases of Speer's life and work. Precisely because of Speer's contradictions, Fest sees him as representative of the mood and susceptibilities of the German people of the time. In this book Fest argues persuasively that Albert Speer's life helps to explain how Germany broke with its traditions in 1933 and descended so far into crime and barbarism.
