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Summary: Good reading but of doubtful historical value
Review: This book provides a very interesting account of some of the "inside" events of the Third Reich from one perspective. It gives the reader a positive image of the writer, Albert Speer. This conclusion is quite controversial and I recommend reading a book taking the opposite side, like Matthia Schmidt's "Albert Speer: The End of a Myth", to get a balanced perspective of Speer. Overall, Speer's autobiography is a great book for anyone interested in history of Nazi Germany.
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Summary: An eye opening veiw of the Third Reich
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn of the inner workings of the Third Reich. Albert Speer Gives an up close and revealing view of the Nazis' rise and destruction, and the folly of becoming enamered with Hitler. Fortunately it was Hitler and not Speer in charge of the Nazi war machine. This is a book worth reading by any WW2 history buff.
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Summary: Very good....Far from useless details....
Review: This book is far from the many books I read, beacause it just gives the routine life of Hitler and his entouragement.It is very far from useless details, and the details you find are just the ones that make you grip of what was going on the 3rd Reich...you begin to feel something like soap operas inside...anger, hatred, racism, love, utopias, breakdowns...anyone who wants to read about the national socialists' daily life and also Hitler's should read this book.
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Summary: the diary of a self made man in fierce years
Review: Albert Speer's memoirs describe already known facts from un unusual point of view: readers witness the 'climax' of one man's career on Nazi dictatorship setting. Speer describes himself and the world around him, trying to defend his choices as made in good faith, just thinking about the safe of his Nation: howerver his search for success emerges among the tragedy, and , maybe, readers could think even his defence is just another, desperate, attempt to save a fragment of his success. I am sure he loved his Homeland, but I am sure he loved his career too, this blinded him in front of Hitler's fool purposes. This is really a good book to better understand something of the German Intellighenzia in 30's, and to understand how did how learned and intelligent men gave theirselves to Adolf Hitler.
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Summary: Admit you are a monster, and you are exonerated?
Review: I loved Speer's book. And it is a great contribution to history. But by his own admission, he may have been the worst of the bunch. Hatred has a certain energy. A cerain workability, so to speak. When you murder, you feel. Mind you, I'm not writing from personal experience. But Speer admits this. He simply had no affinity for human tissue. He admits, in the book, this non-human aspect to himself. And quite glibly says that he was worse than the real minions of hate. For he didn't feel. Speer was the archtypal sociopath. As I sit here and write this review, if someone were to scream for help, I might simply notice the scream and calmly go back to my work. Speer states that he knew nothing of the Holocaust. His writing is very truthful and I have no doubts that this is true. But then he states that he would have been aghast. Not because of the brutality of what was done. But, as he admits, his reason was only worse. The waste of labor in slave labor. The man used a very common ploy. One used many times. By being brutally blunt about his own guilt, we come to defend him. Let's grow up a little. The man is now dead and he would have done the same thing. Simply because he was right about himself. He viewed a world of objects and not people. I'll save my compassion for Hitler whose father brutally beat him so bad that he would urinate in his pants each time before the act was even done.
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Summary: UNIQUE HISTORY
Review: I highly recommend this book for those interested in this specialty topic. It's probably not the best prose in the world, but the intelligent and unique perspective of the author can rarely be matched in the world.The perspective, the narrative, the stories are all fascinating.
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Summary: A must read for all interested in WW II
Review: Albert Speer was perhaps the biggest genius of all of Hitler's aides. His brilliant writing gives the reader an insight into the inner relm of the Nazi German elite. With men like Speer it is hard to believe that Germany lost the war, even against such great odds.
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Summary: La follia del Terzo Reich vista da dentro
Review: In questo bel libro Albert Speer, architetto del regime, illustra la sua vita e quella delle persone ai vertici del potere in Germania durante il Terzo Reich. Non si tratta di un resoconto storico dei fatti (vedi William Shirer, il migliore) ma del tentativo di spiegare (e forse giustificare) come una persona tutt'altro che stupida (Speer) e molte altre siano giunte al punto di sostenere quasi fino alla fine quel folle, esaltato e delirante regime dittatoriale.
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Summary: Not a good book for pleasure reading!
Review: This book had some very interesting points in it about WWII but I don't recommed it if your not into all the details of the war. It had some interesting things about Hitler and his hench men also. All books have strong and weak points but this book is just to in depth to much.
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Summary: Very enjoyable and informative
Review: For those interested in learning about WWII, and of the attitudes of those who waged the war, this is a fascinating and very enjoyable read, as is Speer's Memoirs from Spandau.
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