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'''Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer'''<sup>[1]</sup> (<small>German:</small> [ˈʃpeːɐ̯]<small> ( listen)</small>; <nowiki> </nowiki>March 19th, 1905 – September 1st, 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",<sup>[b]</sup> 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]]. | '''Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer'''<sup>[1]</sup> (<small>German:</small> [ˈʃpeːɐ̯]<small> ( listen)</small>; <nowiki> </nowiki>March 19th, 1905 – September 1st, 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",<sup>[b]</sup> 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]]. |