Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect and Nazi functionary. As Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production (1942–1945), he organized the war economy of the Third Reich and thus prolonged the war considerably. Speer was jointly responsible for the use of forced laborers, but later denied this to some extent. After the war, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Nuremberg. Why Albert Speer Shaped Berlin’s Olympic Stadium Berlin’s Olympic Stadium was built for the 1936 Olympic Game

Ein großer deutscher Architekt ist tot. Albert Speer junior starb, weltweit angesehen, mit 83 Jahren in Frankfurt. Mit bahnbrechenden Ideen prägte er den Städtebau weltweit an vielen Orten mit. | ZDF heute

Albert Speer Saw U.S. Factories Produce 96,000 Aircraft in 1944 – Knew Germany Was Doomed Discover how Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments, realized the inevitable collapse of Nazi Germany when he witnessed the staggering scale of American production. In 1944 alone, U.S. factories rolled out 96,000 aircraft—an industrial miracle that no amount of German efficiency could match. Speer, a man once convinced that German organization and engineering could secure victory, began to see the tru