Albert Speer : his battle with truth /
Sereny, Gitta.
Albert Speer : his battle with truth / Gitta Sereny. - 1st Vintage books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1996. - xiv, 757 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-734) and index.
An infusion of stable stock -- "I felt he was a human being" -- Dizzy with excitement -- A kind of love -- A shared devotion -- "You've all gone completely insane" -- A slight discomfort -- Unleashing murder -- A grey path indeed -- A moral sore -- A fatal appointment -- An irresistible challenge -- A maelstrom of intrigues -- A blinkered commitment -- The unbearable truth -- "It was not yet my time" -- The twentieth of July -- Scorched earth -- "I stand unconditionally behind you" -- He is the dream -- The one interesting person -- A common responsibility -- Spandau: I -- Spandau: II -- A twilight of knowing -- The great lie.
Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "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
0679768122 9780679768128
Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
Nazis--Biography.
War criminals--Germany--Biography.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Biographies.
Albert Speer : his battle with truth / Gitta Sereny. - 1st Vintage books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1996. - xiv, 757 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-734) and index.
An infusion of stable stock -- "I felt he was a human being" -- Dizzy with excitement -- A kind of love -- A shared devotion -- "You've all gone completely insane" -- A slight discomfort -- Unleashing murder -- A grey path indeed -- A moral sore -- A fatal appointment -- An irresistible challenge -- A maelstrom of intrigues -- A blinkered commitment -- The unbearable truth -- "It was not yet my time" -- The twentieth of July -- Scorched earth -- "I stand unconditionally behind you" -- He is the dream -- The one interesting person -- A common responsibility -- Spandau: I -- Spandau: II -- A twilight of knowing -- The great lie.
Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "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
0679768122 9780679768128
Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
Nazis--Biography.
War criminals--Germany--Biography.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Biographies.