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Albert Speer: his battle with the truth

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.

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  • "Zápas s pravdou"
  • "Albert Speer"

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  • "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."@en
  • "Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers. Out of her probings a huge, and hugely alive, portrait emerges. Sereny takes us through the emotional desert of Speer's childhood and marriage, through his embrace (basically, she demonstrates, for nonideological reasons) of the Nazi Party and his service as Minister of Armaments and Munitions, during which his brutal use of slave labor extended a lost war. She superbly portrays the circles in which Speer functioned: the ambivalent General Staff and the infinitely peculiar and nightmarish upper echelons of Nazism."

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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Biografie"
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  • "Biographie"
  • "Biography"
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  • "Albert Speer küzdelme az igazsággal"@hu
  • "Albert Speer: his battle with the truth"@en
  • "Albert Speer : his battle with truth"@en
  • "Albert Speer : his battle with truth"
  • "Albert Speer : sua luta com a verdade"
  • "Albert Speer: Zápas s pravdou"
  • "Albert speer sua luta com a verdade"@pt
  • "Albert Speer : el arquitecto de Hitler : su lucha con la verdad"
  • "Albert Speer : el arquitecto de Hitler : su lucha con la verdad"@es
  • "Albert Speer His Battle with Truth his battle with truth"
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  • "Albert Speer : das Ringen mit der Wahrheit und das deutsche Trauma"
  • "Albert Speer : das Ringen mit der Wahrheit und das deutsche trauma"
  • "Albert Speer : His battle with truth"
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  • "Albert Speer his battle with truth"
  • "Albert Speer: his battle with truth"

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