By Albert Speer
Speer, the Minister of Armaments and battle creation less than Hitler, the guy who had stored Germany armed and the conflict laptop working even after Hitler's mystique had light, takes a brutally sincere examine his function within the battle attempt, giving readers an entire view of the interior of the Nazi country. images & illustrations.
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Rather, for a few short hours the personal unhappiness caused by the breakdown of the economy was replaced by a frenzy that demanded victims. And Hitler and Goebbels threw them the victims. By lashing out at their opponents and villifying the Jews they gave expression and direction to fierce, primal passions. The Sportpalast emptied. The crowd moved calmly down Potsdamer Strasse. Their self-assurance fed by Goebbels's speech, they challengingly took up the whole width of the street, so that automobile traffic and the streetcars were blocked.
And if today we are on the downward path, it is not because we are a mixed race. For we were already that in the Middle Ages when we still had a vigorous germ in us and were expanding, when we drove the Slavs out of Prussia, or later transplanted European culture to America. We are going downhill because our energies have been consumed; it is the same thing that happened in the past to the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. There is nothing to be done about that. The twenties in Berlin were the inspiring backdrop to my student years.
That continued to be so, even though I felt strong nationalistic feelings-as for example, at the time of the French occupation of the Rohr in 1923. To my amazement my Abitur essay was judged the best in my class. Nevertheless I thought, "That's hardly likely for you," when the head of the school in his farewell address told the graduates that now "the way to highest deeds and honors" was open to us. Since I was the best mathematician in the school, I had intended to study that subject. But my father presented sound reasons against this choice, and I would not have been a mathematician familiar with the laws of logic if I had not yielded to his arguments.