by Albert Speer ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston ; introduction by Eugene Davidson
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1970
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xx, 596 p., [48] p. of plates :
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ill. ;
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21 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Translation of Erinnerungen
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-570) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Origins and youth -- Profession and vocation -- Junction -- My catalyst -- Architectural megalomania -- Greatest assignment -- Obersalzberg -- New Chancellery -- Day in the Chancellery -- Our empire style -- Globe -- Descent begins -- Excess -- Start in my new office -- Organized improvisation -- Sins of omission -- Commander in chief Hitler -- Intrigues -- Second man in the state -- Bombs -- Hitler in the Autumn of 1943 -- Downhill -- Illness -- War thrice lost -- Blunders, secret weapons, and the SS -- Operation valkyrie -- Wave from the West -- Plunge --Doom -- Hilter's Utimatum -- Thirteenth hour -- Annihilation
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The author, Hitler's architect and later his armaments minister, was in the dictator's inner circle for almost 12 years. After the war, Speer used the enforced leisure of his 20 prison years as a war criminal to plan and write these memoirs. This is the most revealing document on the Hitler phenonmenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer