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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2017 · News & Politics

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Nazi war criminal Albert Speer DID know about Hitler's atrocities - and he even deported Jews, claims new book
The biography, dubbed the first 'truly scientific' study of Speer, who was dubbed a "good Nazi" claims he was at the very heart of the Holocaust
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nazi-war-criminal-albert-speer-10536971
BY ALLAN HALL 18:51, 31 MAY 2017
Nazi war criminal Albert Speer – who escaped death by claiming he did not know of Hitler’s atrocities – was at the heart of the Holocaust, a book claims.
A self-professed “good Nazi”, Speer convinced Nuremberg judges of his innocence and was instead sent to Spandau Prison for 20 years.
He later became a prominent speaker on the horrors of the Nazi regime and managed to portray his own life as that of a 'clean man' for decades.
But a new biography by historian Magnus Brechtken, described as the first 'truly scientific' study of Speer, shows he was instrumental in the persecution of Jews, including exploiting forced labour.
Published next week, Albert Speer, A German Career, also reveals his previously unknown role in deporting Jews from Berlin and his membership of the ultra-right Nazi automobile club in the 1930s.
"Speer," says Brechtken, "was an ideal projection surface for millions of Germans who wanted to tell exactly the same story about putting distance between them and National Socialism as Speer did."
The book is published at the same time as a major exhibition opens at the site of the pompous Nuremberg parade ground about the man who fooled the postwar world about his real role in the Third Reich.
But Albert Speer, pictured here second left, knew full well about the atrocities, it is claimed (Photo: Getty)
As armaments minister he was charged with accelerating munitions and weapons production in a land reeling from Allied air bombardments.
To achieve this he relied heavily on the slave labour battalions recruited from the concentration camp gulag.
He saw these people on his frequent visits to armaments factories and must have known of their suffering.
"So it goes on in Brechtken's book, page by page," said Die Welt. "The Munich historian has succeeded in writing the deconstruction of the liar Albert Speer extremely fluently."

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