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5 days ago · Albert Speer is depicted as a figure who navigated the highest echelons of Nazi power. His architectural visions transformed Berlin, yet his later role in the war effort left an indelible mark on history. The series covers Speer's participation in the Nuremberg Trials, where he was one of the few to admit partial responsibility for Nazi crimes.
4 days ago · After the war, Albert Speer discussed the rationale for the flight with Hess, who told him that "the idea had been inspired in him in a dream by supernatural forces. We will guarantee England her empire; in return she will give us a free hand in Europe."
4 days ago · The Olympiastadion ( German pronunciation: [oˈlʏmpi̯aˌʃtaːdi̯ɔn] ⓘ; English: Olympic Stadium) is a sports stadium at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was originally designed by Werner March for the 1936 Summer Olympics. During the Olympics, the record attendance was thought to be over 100,000.
1 day ago · The IMT defendants required Soviet permission for release; Speer was not successful in obtaining early release, and Hess remained in prison until his death in 1987. By the late 1950s, the West German consensus on release began to erode, due to greater openness in political culture and new revelations of Nazi criminality, including the first trials of Nazi perpetrators in West German courts.
2 days ago · When his minister of war production, Albert Speer, protested against this drastic order, Hitler retorted: “If the war is lost, the German nation will also perish. So there is no need to consider what the people require for continued existence.”
4 days ago · The notable exception is Albert Speer (played by Herbert Knaup), Hitler’s chief architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, who from his earliest appearance on the screen commits to being the author of the crimes with which he is charged, who knows himself to be a criminal subject, who signals that the decision of the judges will be his own, and who offers to assist his captors ...
6 days ago · While Hitler was said to have been dazzled by the building when he visited Brussels in the First World War – and his chief architect Albert Speer would write about the Palace of Justice as an inspiration for Germania – it did not prevent the retreating Nazis from trying to destroy it.
4 days ago · Hanna finds herself working as a secretary to Albert Speer, and later to the repulsive Martin Bormann, Hitler’s deputy, only to eventually escape from Berlin at the end of the war by the skin...
5 days ago · Marianne Neerland Soleim, f. 1969, dr. art. og professor i historie, Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet.Har utgitt bl.a. Sovjetiske krigsfanger i Norge 1941–1945.Antall, organisering og repatriering (2009, ny utgave 2018) og «Operasjon asfalt».Kald krig om krigsgraver (2016). Redaktør av Prisoners of War and Forced Labour.
4 days ago · Victoria and Albert Museum, British museum that houses what is generally regarded as the world’s greatest collection of the decorative arts. Pieces include European sculpture, ceramics, furniture, metalwork, jewelry, and textiles from the early medieval period to the present day.
