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In 1989, during my Peace Corps service, I came across the book "INSIDE THE THIRD REICH" quite by surprise and could not put it down. I read it for hours nonstop.
The story that Speer relates here of his life and career in the Third Reich, first as Hitler's architect, and later as the Minister for Armaments and War Production (1942-1945) is gripping and compelling. You get a real, tangible sense of what the people (e.g. Goering, Hess, Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, etc.) were like who played key role ...more
The story that Speer relates here of his life and career in the Third Reich, first as Hitler's architect, and later as the Minister for Armaments and War Production (1942-1945) is gripping and compelling. You get a real, tangible sense of what the people (e.g. Goering, Hess, Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, etc.) were like who played key role ...more
Albert Speer was Hitler's best friend (if Hitler was capable of such) and was uniquely positioned to hear Hitler's inner thoughts and musings. I quoted from this book in my book on WWII spy Dusko Popov (INTO THE LION'S MOUTH) because Popov and Pujol were the principal elements of deceit, suggesting to their German masters that the Allies would invade at Calais.
Speer quotes Hitler as saying, "How many of those fine agents [the German spies] are paid by the Allies ... I won't even pass this [the i ...more
Speer quotes Hitler as saying, "How many of those fine agents [the German spies] are paid by the Allies ... I won't even pass this [the i ...more
Feb 07, 2010
Elke Erickson
marked it as own-not-read-yet
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Sep 18, 2010
KOMET
rated it
it was amazing
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