Albert Speer Quotes

Germany, Architect
March 19, 1905 – September, 1, 1981.

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting he had been ignorant of the Holocaust.

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

Albert Speer
- Gas
- Catastrophe
- Warfare
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Albert Speer
- Racism
- Victims
- Tanks

I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.

Albert Speer
- Party
- Jews
- Evacuated
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Albert Speer
- Order
- Camps
- Menace
I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.

Albert Speer
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

Albert Speer
Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

Albert Speer
One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.

Albert Speer

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.

Albert Speer
- War
- Morale
- Populace
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

Albert Speer