Overview
- Interview Summary
- Albert Speer discusses why he was drawn to Hitler; his last meeting with Hitler; his involvement in the Third Reich as the architect and Minister of Armaments; his personal insight into Hitler’s personality; Hitler’s post-war plans for Germany; his beliefs on what Germany would have been if Hitler had won the war; his knowledge of what was happening in concentration camps; his prison sentence in Spandau; his experiences at the Nuremberg Trials; and his reasons for writing and publishing his memoirs.
- Interviewee
- Speer, Albert
- Interviewer
- Mel London
- Date
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interview:
1970 June 23
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 sound cassettes (60 min.).
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Architects. Autobiography. Correspondence. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg. War criminals--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German. Men--Personal narratives.
- Personal Name
- Speer, Albert, 1905-1981. Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party Spandau Prison (Berlin, Germany)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Mel London donated the oral history interview with Albert Speer to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 1996.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 08:31:13
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