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Original Title:	Erinnerungen
ISBN:	0684829495 (ISBN13: 9780684829494)
Characters:	Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer
Setting:	Third Reich(Germany)

Inside the Third Reich

Albert Speer

Paperback | Pages: 672 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 11463 Users | 321 Reviews

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Title	:	Inside the Third Reich
Author	:	Albert Speer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 672 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1997 by Simon Schuster (first published 1969)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Biography. War. World War II

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This book is definitely essential reading if you have any kind of interest at all in either WWII, or the agency which individual people can have within a totalitarian system. Inside the Third Reich is a lengthy - in my edition, seven hundred pages, not including notes, bibliography or index - memoir written by Albert Speer, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1945 when he was Hitler's architect, his Minister of Arms and Munitions, and probably one of the closest things Hitler had to a friend.

At many points it's not an easy book to read - not because Speer goes into any detail about the mass killings or the conditions in the concentration camps, but because of the detail which he goes into about the construction and requisition projects which formed so much of his work at the time, the repetitive ways in which he documents tea-time with Hitler. In some ways I think this is one of the most important features of the book. You get to see the sheer banality of the regime, the statistics and demographics which make up such a large chunk of the book showing off the bureaucracy of the Third Reich which was not so very different from many other western countries at the time, or since.

His observations on Hitler's personality, his initial hero-worship for him, and his gradual later disillusionment, are truly fascinating to read about. Hitler is shown, not as a madman or as an evil mastermind, but as an actual person; the descent into delusion and denial in later life is made all the more dramatic by how almost-normal he seemed in the earlier part of the book.

Speer does express regret in the book for the crimes which the Nazi regime committed, and for his part in them. This is not something which he came to realise over the course of writing his memoirs - from the Nuremberg trials, we do have footage of him striking his breast and saying mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Something, perhaps, of a realisation of the wrongs of the regime had already occurred to him from 1944 on, as shown by his attempts to block some or all of the scorched earth policy which Hitler tried to adopt in the last few desperate months of the war.

However, I find it really and truly hard to believe that Speer was ever truly as naive and unaware as he was presented as being in the book, or that he was devoted to all the aims of Nazism with the exception of its racist ideologies. He certainly wasn't involved directly in any of the mass murder, but he did make use of slave labour in his construction projects and in the munition factories which he ran. He may have been described by others as the 'respectable Nazi'; but respectable or not, he was still a Nazi, who either found the racial policies of the regime acceptable, or capable of being ignored. Perhaps he didn't know; perhaps he didn't want to know, consciously or unconsciously. With an auto-biographical memoir of this nature and on this topic, it is hard to be certain. I think the only thing one can do is to read the book oneself, and make up one's own mind.

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A fascinating look into the workings of Hitler's regime--so frustrating to see how disorganized and easy to paralyze, if only one had the right information at the right time. It took a long time to get through, but worth it!

Capsule review (due to time constraints):One of the towering and invaluable testimonies to come out of the war, Speer's account of the Hitlerian inner circle has proven a gold mine for subsequent writers on the Nazi regime. Because he was one of the few higher-up henchmen to show some measure of contrition at the Nuremberg Trials and own up to guilt for his role in the administration of the Reich and the parallel horrors, Speer received the relatively "light" punishment of 20+ years in prison

I came to this book via the Amazon TV show "The Man in the High Castle", which is itself based on a Philip K. Dick short story of a world where Germany and Japan won the second world war. Rufus Sewell is the actor who plays a high-ranking Nazi officer in the TV show. Sewell mentioned in an interview that his sympathetic portrayal of a gradually dehumanised officer is based on Albert Speer. Speer was Hitler's architect and rose through the ranks to become Armaments Minister. So I thought I should

Fascinating book but I found myself wondering if Herr Speer was really the hero he made himself out to be. Did he really single-handledly prevent the scorched-earth decree from Hitler from being carried out? Did he really face up to Hitler and say "the war is lost" and "you have no right to ask the German people to suffer because YOU lost the war"? We'll never know. But this much is sure, Herr Speer gave us a detailed look at the top level of Nazi government in both victory and in defeat. His

In 1989, during my Peace Corps service, I came across the book "INSIDE THE THIRD REICH" quite by surprise and could not put it down. I read it for hours nonstop.The story that Speer relates here of his life and career in the Third Reich, first as Hitler's architect, and later as the Minister for Armaments and War Production (1942-1945) is gripping and compelling. You get a real, tangible sense of what the people (e.g. Goering, Hess, Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, etc.) were like who played key

This is not a book for the easily disturbed, but it's vital to not only history, but also to humanity. Inside the Third Reich spreads the word loud and clear that the horrors of the Holocaust did happen, that millions were led to their demise because of it, and that we can't let this truth be swept under the carpet if we don't want it to happen again in other forms.

One hesitates to assign stars here. Speer's book is important, well-written, and offers a unique perspective. Speer is, himself, a wily narrator who carefully chooses what to omit. Having read a number of books on Speer, I have to say that I am more of the opinion of van der Vat's The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer than of Sereny's Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. One doesn't want to believe that one could be charmed by a man who was responsible for what Speer clearly had done,