TY - BOOK ID - 32669808 TI - Speer : Hitler's Architect PY - 2015 SN - 9780300226416 9780300190441 0300190441 9780300216004 0300216009 PB - Yale University DB - UniCat KW - Cabinet officers KW - Architects KW - Nazis KW - War criminals KW - Speer, Albert, KW - Germany KW - Allemagne KW - Politics and government KW - Military policy. KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Politique militaire KW - Architecture KW - History KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. KW - HISTORY / Military / World War II. KW - HISTORY / Europe / Germany. KW - Political and social views. KW - 72.07 KW - Architectuur ; stedenbouw ; Berlijn ; 1937-1943 ; A. Speer KW - Architectuur en nazisme KW - Speer, Albert 1905-1981 (°Mannheim, Duitsland) KW - Cabinet ministers KW - Ministers of State KW - Secretaries of State KW - Public officers KW - Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z KW - Shpeer, Alʹbert, KW - Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert, KW - Шпеер, Альберт, KW - Third Reich, 1933-1945 KW - Propaganda KW - Architectuur KW - Politiek KW - Archief KW - Digitalisering KW - Maatschappij KW - Film KW - Godsdienst KW - Cultuur KW - Oorlogspropaganda UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32669808 AB - "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"-- ER -