Inside the Third Reich

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ISBN: 9780684829494 | 0684829495
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Copyright: 4/1/1997

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Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state. Photos & illustrations.

Introduction

xiii

Eugene Davidson

Foreword

xxv

PART ONE

Origins and Youth

(10)

Youth

Life at home

Schooling

Inflation

Assistant to Tessenow

Marriage

Profession and Vocation

(8)

Offer from Afghanistan

Architect without commissions

Boating tours

The election of September 14, 1930

National Socialism and the Technical Institute

First Hitler rally

Goebbels in the Sportpalast

Joining the party

Junction

(11)

First party assignment in Berlin

Back in Mannheim

Hitler's Berlin demonstration

Renovating the party headquarters and the Propaganda Ministry

Decor for the Party Rally, May 1933

My client Hitler

At home with Hitler

My Catalyst

(18)

Hitler's guest

My client Goering

Traveling with Hitler

Hitler's thought

Hitler's views on art

The Old Fighters

At Obersalzberg Mountain walks with Eva Braun

Cheers and obsessions

Hitler the architect

Architectural Megalomania

(21)

The Roehm putsch

Papen expelled from his office

Hindenburg's funeral

First major assignment

Theory of ruin value

Cathedral of light

Cornerstone layings

Plans for Nuremberg

Architecture of a Great Power

The Greatest Assignment

(12)

Plans for Berlin

Rivaling Vienna and Paris

Hitler and his architects

The German pavilion at the Paris World's Fair

Neoclassicism in our times

Abortive travels in France

Neurath's obstinacy

Obersalzberg

(19)

Bormann and Hitler

The day at Obersalzberg

Teatime talk

Hitler's rage

Retirement in Linz

Hitler's prediction

The New Chancellery

102

(15)

The assignment

Hitler's illness

Morell

Events of 1938: Cabinet changes, Austria, Munich, November 9

A bad omen

Hacha in the new Chancellery

A Day in the Chancellery

117

(15)

Waiting

Hess the eccentric

The leadership's ``style''

The radicals, Bormann and Goebbels

Jokes for Hitler

Dull evenings

Hitler and music

Our Empire Style

132

(19)

``You've all gone completely crazy''

Laying out the grand avenue

Megalomania

Deadlines

Costs

Boom in architecture

Hitler's sketches

Affairs in the Goebbels family

Incognito to Italy

Hitler's fiftieth birthday

With the Wagner family in Bayreuth

Frau Goebbels

The Globe

151

(9)

Hitler's power center

The biggest building in the world

A Reichstag for one hundred forty million people

Hitler's palace

Fear of uprisings

Empire style

The globe

The Descent Begins

160

(14)

The Pact

Northern lights over Obersalzberg

``Blood''

War and peace parties

Hitler goes to war

At headquarters

Armistice

With Hitler in Paris

Wartime building program

Excess

174

(15)

Victory parades under the triumphal arch

Hess's flight to England

Hitler and Goering as art collectors

War against the Soviet Union

The pencil line along the Urals

Captured weapons for the grand avenue

Trondheim and the East

My last art tour

Disaster in Russia

The second man

PART TWO

Start in My New Office

189

(15)

Flight to Dnepropetrovsk

Visit to headquarters

Talks with Hitler and Todt

Death of Todt

Audience with Hitler

Appointment as Minister

Goering's scene

First official acts

Obstacles overcome

The Cabinet Room

Organized Improvisation

204

(10)

The new organizational scheme

Goering's threat to resign

Architect and technology

Industrial self

responsibility

Organization of the Ministry

Successes

Sins of Omission

214

(16)

The technological war

Efforts at full mobilization

Party opposition

More steel for the war

Transportation crisis

The muffed atom bomb

Commander in Chief Hitler

230

(22)

Armaments conferences with Hitler

My system

Hitler's knowledge of technology

Demonstrating weapons

Visits in southern Russia

Ascent of Mount Elbrus

Hitler's situation conferences

The Allied landing in North Africa

Goering and Stalingrad

Intrigues

252

(15)

Bormann

Cabinet meetings again

Need for austerity

Discussions with Goebbels

Alliances

Bormann's system

Dealing with Goebbels, dealing with Goering

Fiasco

Himmler's threat

Second Man in the State

267

(11)

Goebbels joins Bormann

Hitler reprimands Goebbels

No prisoners

Bridge to Asia

Guderian and Zeitzler agree

Minister of War Production

Bombs

278

(14)

The new front

Goering's deceptions

The Ruhr dams

Pinpoint bombing strategy

The raids on Hamburg

Ball bearings

The enemy's strategic mistake

The bombing of Berlin

Hitler's mistakes Galland against Goering

The flight from reality

Hitler in the Autumn of 1943

292

(17)

The change in Hitler

His rigidity and exhaustion

Daily routine

Hitler and his dog

The Prince of Hesse

Mussolini freed and cheated

Downhill

309

(18)

Armaments work in occupied territories

Agreement with the French

Sauckel's reaction

Speech to the Gauleiters

Hitler lies to his generals

Trip to Lapland

Infantry program

Trouble with Sauckel

Goering's birthday

PART THREE

Illness

327

(19)

Dangerous plots

Convalescence

The Fighter Aircraft Staff

Hitler's emotion and new estrangement

Candidates for my office

Thoughts of resignation

Back at the Berghof

Hitler yields

Praise in The Observer

The War Thrice Lost

346

(16)

Return to work

Strategic bombing of fuel production

Memoranda

Rommel and coastal defense

The invasion of Normandy begins

Takeover of aircraft production

Hitler's speech to the industrialists

Blunders, Secret Weapons, and the SS

362

(15)

Jet fighters as bombers

Peenemunde

Concentration camp prisoners in war industry

Himmler invades rocket research

Plans for SS economic expansion

Stealing workers

Auschwitz

Operation Valkyrie

377

(19)

Talks with the conspirators

The news reaches Goebbels

In the center of the counterstroke

Bendlerstrasse

Meeting with Fromm

Himmler calls on Goebbels

Kaltenbrunner's visit

On the conspirators' lists

Aftermath

Arrests

Films of the executions

The Wave from the West

396

(16)

Goebbels gains power

Hitler loses authority

Visits to the front

September 1944: military impotence

Hitler's plans for destruction

Outwitting his arguments

Shortage of chromium

Declining production

Secret weapons and propaganda

The Plunge

412

(21)

Breakup of organization

Emergency program

The Ardennes offensive

Upper Silesia

``The war is lost''

Memorandum

Reaction to Yalta

Poison Gas for Hitler's bunker

Doom

433

(11)

Anxiety over the postwar period

Countermeasures

Another memorandum

Hitler's reply

Hitler's death sentence upon industry

Hitler's Ultimatum

444

(17)

The Ruhr threatened

Feverish travels

Sabotage of orders

Hitler's twenty-four-hour ultimatum

An unread letter

Hitler yields again

The Thirteenth Hour

461

(10)

Radio speech

Finale of Gotterdammerung

Roosevelt's death

Ley invents death rays

Eva Braun

Preparations for flight

Plans for suicide

Hitler's last delusions

The ``rebel speech''

Collaboration with Heinrici

Berlin will not be defended

Annihilation

471

(22)

Hitler's condition

Fear and pity

Last birthday

Goering goes to Berchtesgaden

My flight

In the Hamburg radio bunker

Last visit to Hitler

Situation conference

Farewell to Magda Goebbels and Eva Braun

Last words with Hitler

Himmler and his notions

Doenitz

Tears

Responsibility

EPILOGUE

Stations of Imprisonment

493

(14)

Flensburg

Mondorf

Versailles

Kransberg

Nuremberg

507

(12)

Interrogations

Collective responsibility

Cross-examination

Conclusions

519

(6)

The judgment

The sentence

My own fate

Skepticism

Afterword

525

(2)

Notes

527

(44)

Index

571

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Inside the Third Reich

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