Ideologies / Nazi / Albert Speer
§ The minds · 1905–1981 · Germany · Armaments Minister
Albert Speer
The technocrat
Architecture, armaments, and evasion.
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Governance+90
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Hitler's architect and armaments minister, whose efficient war production relied on slave labour and whose postwar self-exculpation became its own cautionary tale.
social
Nationalist aesthete who later cultivated a myth of ignorance.
economic
Maximised war production using mass forced labour.
governance
Technocratic administrator at the regime's core.
Notable for
- Nazi armaments production
- Monumental state architecture
- Disputed Nuremberg defence
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