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|name = Evil-doer | |name = Evil-doer | ||
| | |Image = Albert Speer.jpg | ||
|fullname = Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer | |fullname = Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer | ||
|alias = The Nazi Who | |alias = The Nazi Who Said Sorry<br>The Good Nazi | ||
|origin = Mannheim, Baden, German Empire | |origin = Mannheim, Baden, German Empire | ||
|occupation = Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany | |occupation = Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany | ||
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|goals = Create weapons for the Nazis to use in World War II (successful)<br>Redeem himself for his involvement in the Holocaust (successful) | |goals = Create weapons for the Nazis to use in World War II (successful)<br>Redeem himself for his involvement in the Holocaust (successful) | ||
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>Forced labor<br>Conspiracy<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>Corruption<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Polonophobia]]<br> | |crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>Forced labor<br>Conspiracy<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>Corruption<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Polonophobia]]<br> | ||
|hobby = Building weapons<br>Writing books | |hobby = Building weapons<br>Writing books}}{{Quote|A new large-scale war will end with the destruction of human culture and civilization. Therefore, this this trial must contribute toward preventing such degenerate wars in the future, and toward establishing rules whereby human beings can live together.|Speer at the Nuremberg Trials.}} | ||
'''Albert Speer''' (March 19<sup>th</sup>, 1905 – September 1<sup>st</sup>, 1981) was a German architect who was, for <nowiki> </nowiki>most of [[World War II]], Minister of Armaments and War Production for [[Nazi Germany]]. Speer was [[Adolf Hitler]]’s chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", | '''Albert Speer''' (March 19<sup>th</sup>, 1905 – September 1<sup>st</sup>, 1981) was a German architect who was, for <nowiki> </nowiki>most of [[World War II]], Minister of Armaments and War Production for [[Nazi Germany]]. Speer was [[Adolf Hitler]]’s chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting he had been ignorant of [[The Holocaust|the Holocaust]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. He was the second of three sons of Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer. In 1918, the family leased their Mannheim residence and moved to a home they had in Heidelberg. Henry T. King, deputy prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials who later wrote a book about Speer said, "Love and warmth were lacking in the household of Speer's youth." His brothers, Ernst and Hermann, bullied him throughout his childhood. Speer was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied architecture. | Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. He was the second of three sons of Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer. In 1918, the family leased their Mannheim residence and moved to a home they had in Heidelberg. Henry T. King, deputy prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials who later wrote a book about Speer said, "Love and warmth were lacking in the household of Speer's youth." His brothers, Ernst and Hermann, bullied him throughout his childhood. Speer was active in sports, taking up skiing and mountaineering. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied architecture. | ||
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