By Albert Speer

Speer, the Minister of Armaments and conflict creation less than Hitler, the fellow who had saved Germany armed and the warfare laptop operating even after Hitler's mystique had pale, takes a brutally sincere examine his function within the battle attempt, giving readers a whole view of the interior of the Nazi state.

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Excess Victory parades under the triumphal arch—Hess's flight to England —Hitler and Goering as art collectors—War against the Soviet Union —The pencil line along the Urals—Captured weapons for the grand avenue—Trondheim and the East—My last art tour—Disaster in Russia—The second man PART TWO 14. Start in My New Office Flight to Dnepropetrovsk—Visit to headquarters—Talks with Hitler and Todt—Death of Todt—Audience with Hitler—Appointment as Minister—Goering's scene—First official acts—Obstacles overcome— The Cabinet Room 15.

That was where the large renderings for the builders were made. Drawings of all sorts were made on a bluish transparent paper whose smell is still part and parcel of my memories of that office. My fathers buildings were influenced by the neo-Renaissance: they had bypassed Jugendstil. Later on, the quieter classicism of Ludwig Hoffmann, the influential city architect of Berlin, served him as a model. In that office I made my first "work of art" at the age of twelve. A birthday present for my father, it was a drawing of a sort of allegorical 'life clock," in a highly ornamented case complete with Corinthian columns and intricate scrollwork.

My mother took great pleasure and pride in seeing to it that we belonged socially to the leading families of Mannheim. There were surely no more—but no less-than twenty or thirty households in the city that enjoyed comparable luxuries. A large staff of servants helped meet the requirements of status. In addition to the cook—whom for obvious reasons we children were especially fond of-my parents employed a kitchen maid, a chambermaid, a butler frequently, and a chauffeur always, as well as a nanny to look after us.

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