Albert Speer



"Albert Speer, antic dealer. The Billy Mays of the antic tools. Buy now or regret lost chances later. Remember, no power, no gas, no drinking water, no coal, no transportation. All the railways, canals, docks, locks, ships and locomotives -- destroying all that would hurl back the whole world into the Middle Ages! Well, it sure is when I'm seen Albert Speer now."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Welthauptstadt Pyeongyang

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ʃpɛr/; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯]) was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich 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.

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