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Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs Paperback – January 1, 1971
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAvon
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1971
- Dimensions7 x 5 x 1 inches
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- ASIN : B001A5PGUI
- Publisher : Avon; 1st Avon printing. German edition 1969 Verlag Ulls (January 1, 1971)
- Language : English
- Item Weight : 12.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 7 x 5 x 1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #411,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #915 in German History (Books)
- #3,814 in World War II History (Books)
- #40,974 in Biographies (Books)
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This particular purchase was due to a desire to have a hard-back copy (larger size than the old paperback of years ago) and I am looking forward to working my way through the book once more (it has been so many years since I last read it that I suspect that at least portions will seem new).
The reason I gave the book 4-Stars instead of 5-Stars is because it is now known that Speer exaggerated his role in drastically increasing German military industrial output. He also wasn't quite the master organizer of German industry, either. "The Wages of Destruction" by Tooze (2006) describes the real sources of increased output: the coming on-line of investments in factories made months or years before Speer ever took over, the start of the product rationalization program by his predecessor Fritz Todt, and the deliberate reduction in civilian standard of living to devote resources to the war.
Another book "Design for Total War" by Carroll (1968) describes the centralized managerial chaos inherent in the Nazi method of running the war and the associated war industry. Not even Speer could overcome the fragmentation of decision making and the proliferation of Plenipotentiaries for this-and -that, all of whom claimed absolute power over some aspect of the military economy.
No one can really fully understand the evil workings of the top Nazi officials along with Hitler himself without taking the time to read this.
The reader may be shocked and made angry at times but will never be bored.
After finishing the book, my own finding was that the author, Albert Speer, should have been sentenced to death at Nuremberg for his crimes...and yet in a sense, I am somewhat glad that he beat the hangman as a means to rewarding us with this incredible historical document.
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I would like to think his criticisms of Hitler and the rest of them were accurate, but I have always had my suspicions of Albert Speer. He was the best looking of the crowd and the one who realised immediately that saying sorry was going to win him 'good conduct' marks. When he came out of prison he made a good living out of his wartime experiences, but he successfully white-washed himself whilst he was doing it. He never actually acknowledged his guilt in and his knowledge of the appalling treatment of the slave labour he HAS TO have seen virtually every day in the last months of the war, and he steered around the Holocaust very professionally.
How much of this book is his own writing, who knows, he was after all an architect not a writer, but I enjoyed his insights into those who worshipped at the throne of the Fuhrer, and if ANYONE is going to be accurately honest about this unspeakable era of history, well it's got to be him, because he's the only one who was actually there at the time.

