Albert Speer facts for kids
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 in Mannheim, Germany – 1 September 1981 in London, England) was a leading German architect in the Third Reich. Speer was born in Mannheim, Baden. Adolf Hitler's chief architect before he became the minister for munitions and armaments in 1942. He was also a member of Hitler's Cabinet.
Speer died of a stroke. His son, Albert Speer Jr. was also an architect.
Images for kids
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Speer (wearing Organisation Todt armband) and Wehrmacht general Eduard Dietl at Rovaniemi Airport in Finland, December 1943
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Speer with Luftwaffe field marshal Erhard Milch and aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt, May 1944
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Speer (left), Karl Dönitz and Alfred Jodl (right) after their arrest by the British Army in Flensburg in Northern Germany in May 1945
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Speer at the Nuremberg trial
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Speer spent most of his sentence at Spandau Prison.
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Speer's grave in Heidelberg
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Speer during a visit to a munitions factory in May 1944
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The German city of Cologne in ruins at the end of the war
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Schwerbelastungskörper in 2011
