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Speer : Hitler's architect / Martin Kitchen.
Author
Kitchen, Martin
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Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
Description
xii, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
DD247.S63 K57 2015
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Subject(s)
Cabinet officers
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Germany
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Biography
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Architects
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Germany
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Biography
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Nazis
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Biography
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War criminals
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Germany
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Biography
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Germany
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Politics and government
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1933-1945
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Germany
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Military policy
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Speer, Albert 1905-1981
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Speer, Albert 1905-1981
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Political and social views
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Biographies
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Summary note
"In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer's claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-421) and index.
Contents
1. The Young Architect
2. Nuremberg and Berlin
3. Germania
4. The State of German Armaments in 1942
5. Minister of Armaments
6. Labour : Free, Forced and Slave
7. The Consolidation of Power
8. The Challenge to Power
9. Miracle Weapons
10. The End in Sight
11. Defeat
12. Nuremberg
13. Spandau
14. The Good Nazi.
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ISBN
9780300190441 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
0300190441 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2015023355
OCLC
910503917
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