More striking still, speer afterwards tried to falsify the record in this matter. His battle with truth by gitta sereny, 9780679768128, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Choose your countrys store to see books available for purchase. His battle with truth remains valuable as a detailed and intimate portrait not just of the man, but of an important aspect of the nazi phenomenon, and it could not have been. Aug 30, 2008 where death is just around the corner. Even from beyond the grave speer has been able to keep the mystery alive. I knew little about albert speer, but by the end of the book i had strong feelings about him. His battle with truth has a rightful place in any library of writings about the third reich. Gitta sereny s biography meticulously recreates for the reader the professional, emotional, and psychological life of albert speer, hitlers architect and later. Sep 19, 1995 albert speer, hitlers architect and the minister of armaments and war production after his predecessors death in 1942, is the only highranking nazi official who accepted, really, any blame for the third reichs systematic slaughter of the jews, poles, romanis, russians, political dissidents, etc.
Culture speers battle with truth how deeply was albert speer implicated in hitlers crimes. Traditionalresident3 submitted 6 minutes ago by traditionalresident3 albert speer. Through hitlers great trust in him and speer s own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the third reich. Gitta sereny and albert speers battle with truth on the.
Give a gift donate download ios app newsletters download android app. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Gitta sereny, cbe march 1921 14 june 2012 was an austrianbritish biographer. Albert speer, hitlers architect and the minister of armaments and war production after his predecessors death in 1942, is the only highranking nazi official who accepted, really, any blame for the third reichs systematic slaughter of the jews, poles, romanis, russians, political dissidents, etc. Perhaps the most enigmatic and interesting member of hitlers inner circle. Albert speer his battle with truth by gitta sereny. She interviewed every friend and associate of speers who agreed to see her.
Speer was one of the few defendants at the nuremberg trials to take responsibility for nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the holocaust. This book gives him the attention and importance he craved but did not. It premiered that year at the lyttelton auditorium of the royal national theatre, with the title role played by alex jennings and the role of hitler played by. His battle with truth by gitta sereny online at alibris.
In 1995 she was accused of losing objectivity after befriending speer to study him. I came to serenys book after twenty years working on the german war economy. Then in 1995 the respected journalist gitta sereny published the aptly titled albert speer. Gitta sereny, who has written prolifically about the third reich and spent 12 years working with albert speer and a large number of people who knew him, tells the story of his life in considerable detail and tries to establish whether he spoke the truth about what he knew of hitlers horrors. Prompted by the investigative journalist gitta serenys biography albert speer. His battle with truth by gitta sereny available from rakuten kobo. Albert speer was not only hitlers architect and armaments minister, but the fuhrers. Albert speer, richard winston and clara winston translators, eugene davidson introduction speer, the minister of armaments and war production under hitler, the man who had kept germany armed and the war machine running even after hitlers mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a.
Born and initially raised in austria, she was the author of five books, including the case of. Lukes, a psychiatric hospital in the middlesex group. Albert speer by gitta sereny, 1996, vintage books edition, in english. Jun 18, 2012 in 1995 she was accused of losing objectivity after befriending speer to study him. She also usefully reminds that hitler, for all the evil he inflicted, was not a cartoon monster but a man with imme nse charisma and even some charm. During the nuremberg trials, speer had avoided a death sentence, claiming all the while that he knew nothing of the holocaust. His battle with truth is wellwritten meticulously researched opus on the colorful life, memorable tribulations and profound ethical conflicts of the formed minister of armament and productions, beloved architect and one of the only real friends adolf hitler ever had. Review gitta serenys biography meticulously recreates for the reader the professional, emotional, and. Gitta serenys biography meticulously re creates for. His battle with truth 1995 is a biographical work on albert speer, german minister of armaments during world war ii. Through hitlers great trust in him and speers own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the third reich. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Albert speer was not only hitlers architect and armaments minister, b. His battle with truth is a dense but wellwritten, meticulously researched and brilliant tome by the londonbased journalist gitta sereny, reconsidering the colorful life, memorable tribulations and profound ethical and moral conflicts of the third reichs master technocrat. His battle with truth, sereny proves beyond doubt that he was lying. Fascinatingnot only a major addition to our knowledge of the third reich, but a stunning attempt to understand the nature of good and evil. Read as an inside account of the third reich, or as a revelatory unsparing yet compassionate study of the human capacity for evil, albert speer. His battle with truth main market by gitta sereny isbn. This was in part the product of her unequalled pertinacity and formidable investigative powers.
During the long years in which she had worked on this book, she grew to like speer. Sereny gained respect for his sincerity in his personal battle with truth. Albert speer was not only hitlers architect and armaments minister, but the fuhrers closest friendhis unhappy love. Sereny has probably captured speers aloof, elusive persona as well as any writer could. Sereny unravels the threads of speer s personality. Albert speer was the epitome of the intelligent technocrat who loyally serves a totalitarian regime.
His battle with truth, two recent productions, esther vilars speer and david edgars albert speer, have set out to explore the reputation of hitlers architect and later minister of armaments and war production, albert speer, the only leading nazi to acknowledge his guilt at the nuremberg trials. Albert speer was hitlers architect before the second world war. Gitta sereny, through twelve years of research and through many conversations with speer, his friends and colleagues, reveals how speer came to terms with his own acts and failures to act, his progress from moral extinction to moral selfeducation and the question of his real culpability in the nazi crimes. As hitlers relentlessly efficient minister for armaments and war production from 1942 through 1945, he greatly helped the german military machine prolong world war ii. Download pdf albertspeer free online new books in politics. Economical with the truth might have been coined for speer. Gitta sereny, who has written prolifically about the third reich and spent 12 years working with albert speer and a large number of people who knew him, tells the story of. Culture speer s battle with truth how deeply was albert speer implicated in hitlers crimes. Topics nazi hitler architect armaments minister slave labor collection opensource.
Prompted by the investigative journalist gitta sereny s biography albert speer. Gitta sereny, through twelve years of research and through many conversations with speer, his friends and colleagues, reveals how speer came to terms with his own acts and failures to act, his progress from moral extinction to moral selfeducation and the question of his real culpability in the nazi. His battle with truth by sereny gitta free mobi epub ebooks download. Four years into their relationship, in september 1981, speer died. His battle with truth was, however, notable for eliciting confessions about the architects early. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography. Somehow managing to escape with his life after nuremberg, he spent twenty years in relative. Both attempts are as exasperating as they are exhaustive.
Sereny decided to complete the book alone and proved herself a skillful sleuth. In it, sereny explores how much speer knew about the holocaust. Jul 22, 2019 albert speer by gitta sereny, 1996, vintage books edition, in english. Albert speer was a 2000 play by the british playwright david edgar on the life of the nazi architect albert speer, based on the book albert speer. Because sereny came to like him, this is not a book for the prosecution. From 1942 speer was the second most powerful man in the reich and hitlers righthand man. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Alexander stilles most recent book is excellent cadavers.