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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ ʃ p ɛər /; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ⓘ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.
Haus des Meeres Albert Speer's New Reich Chancellery with Arno Breker's two statues, completed in 1939 Greater Vienna was the second-largest city of the Reich, three times greater than old Vienna. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Three pairs of concrete flak towers were constructed between 1942 and 1944; one of them is known as Haus des Meeres , another one ...
At the beginning of World War II, with the German invasion of Poland in 1939, construction was suspended, but resumed after the clear German victory. When France was defeated in 1940 , Hitler visited Paris briefly with Speer and a few chosen others, the Führer 's desire to "give Berlin a new face" was revitalised, and the work was redoubled at ...
Designed by architect Albert Speer, it consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights, at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience. The Cathedral of Light was documented in the Nazi propaganda film Festliches Nürnberg , released in 1937.
Albert Speer: I: I: G: G 20 years Hitler's friend, favorite architect, and Minister of Armaments from 1942 until the end of the war. In this capacity, he was ultimately responsible for the use of slave laborers from the occupied territories in armaments production.
Following Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s seizure of power in Germany in 1933, they began staging massive and intimidating annual rallies in Nuremberg.
Albert Speer, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, was tasked with carrying out the order but refused, seeing it as a senseless act of destruction. The decree was in vain. The responsibility for carrying it out fell to Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production.
Albert Speer (1942–1945), Minister of Armaments and Munitions Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt] ) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt , an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party .