Albert Speer: The Nazi who said Sorry

This was a rollercoaster ride. I went back and forth between "pragmatic psychopath" and "ambitious youth who got caught up in the dazzling recognition from Hitler and his own hubris, but a person capable of introspection and near-remorse" (which is more than i can say for most people, let alone most Nazis). I think the truth lies somewhere uncomfortably and paradoxically in the middle.

If Speer had any morality at all, it was overwhelmed by denial.

Speer's "euphoria of guilt" was another manifestation of his love and eternal devotion to Hltler.

Top class documentary . Nuanced and responsible reporting .

Far to modern. Not realistic.

Hitler talk about love I very much dought it .

The video title "The Nazi who said Sorry" appears to be quite ridiculous. He was clever enough to maintain a prestigious life, with a little help of friends, for the remainder of his being. People wanted to believe he was the aesthetic nice one. At least in Germany, nobody believes in his fairy tales anymore.

Yes, it was a great actor, at least. Deserve more, but He got to live longer. Yes, very cleaver architect. As corrupt as Governments and catholic church given them other name. How corrupt is that cover for many other criminals. Money and corruption as hand on hans sleep together sad but evrethin has come to ligth nothing is secret and it has come out. Umghhh what a region and Government sleeps together umghh
to have money.

Scary

I got the impression he fooled everyone...

He didn't actually say sorry though did he? If he was sorry he would have plead guilty and not lied.

Guilty as sin. After Nurenberg footage of him at a concentration camp surfaced. He had stolen Jewish paintings and drawings done by Hitler that he accessed after his release. Simon Wiesenthal was no saint either. Innocent people were killed because of one of Wiesenthal Nazi hunts when he accused the wrong person. Far as I'm concerned Wiesenthal was no better than a Nazi.

Speer lied about his role evicting Jews from Berlin for one of his projects, he was present when Himmler spoke about extermination in 1943, and he saw the conditions of enslaved workers in German armaments factories. His deputy Fritz Sauckel was executed for crimes he committed for Speer, and Speer tried to get a friend of his to help him falsify his records. He should have been sentenced to death.

He was a dirty, little slimeball.

He pleased these judges as he pleased hitler. This is only political savvy and personality. A veneer ove rbullsh!tting

"Albert Speer: The Nazi who said Sorry" : Sorry about what?, about the fact that Nazi Germany lost the war?.

Please, everyone remember and consider. The victors always write the 'history' of a war or conflict. And they always make the losers the villains.

It's disgusting, of course he knew. Saddest thing in history ever.

Speer played dumb, apologized, and threw his fellow nazis under the bus. This was why he wasn't given a death sentence.

I re-watch this documentary. I always learn something new. This is the way a documentary should be made. No silly attempts at irony and humor. I made comments about this tendency, and wow, I got hateful replies. Sad humanity, we never learn. I have William Shirer's classic analysis. I am adding Hannah Arendt to my library.

Director of munitions later during war. Dependent on concentration labor. Inhuman working conditions. He knew.

My grandfather was a student of architecture at the Technical University of Berlin at the same time as Speer. They were both students of Heinrich Tessenow. He was therefor quite familiar with Speer. My grandfather hated the Nazis with a passion. He and my grandma hid two Jewish families and grandpa was put in a Gestapo prison. He always said about Speer: "Even back then he was a ruthless, smooth-talking brownnoser who would bow to the ones above him while kicking those below him. The allies should've hung him because there is no way he didn't know what was going on."

How did this monster get away with his crimes?

Albert Speer got less of a sentence (20 years) than the recent jay 6 protesters. Just let that simmer.

Today hanging seems barbaric even for crimes against humanity. I think Speer got prison time and not a death sentence because he didn't have his fingerprint on killing Jews, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, and disabled people in the gas chambers. It seems the other Nazis had more of a direct role in the Final Solution. The Soviet's mode of operation is to kill everybody on the losing side of a war. They have proven to be as bad if not worst than the Nazis as far as standing for justice. With Speer, what a lesson in how associating with thugs, murderers, and a dictator will erode one's own moral principles. A person can never go down that road, and bending to further your ambitions over doing what anyone with a conscience knows is right over wrong, will bring about your own ruin. Instead of being remembered as a talented architect, history remembers Speer as a Nazi.

Vile creature, should have been gung with the rest of them .

Speer wasn’t as recalcitrant as he portrayed. He certainly was more clever than the others but he was as ardent a Nazi as the others. He was not an involuntary user of slave labor but actively sought and participated in the horrific treatment of slave and concentration camp labor.

Albert Speer presents us with a human being , a human dimension, amidst so much evil destruction and death. Yes he was guilty, and he felt a colossal guilt and yet he hsd to maintain his humanity, he was guilty of war crimes as were so many others on both sides, but especially the nazis of course. We are enrichened to have his tortured perspective on the 3rd Reich.

Incredible documentary, thank you

I get that they found it a bit hard to Be judged by England and France.. With all their colonies and de facto slaves.. USSR who killed more of his own than even Nassies did, and USA- who is just as bad now- but had their paper clip justice and (all their wars)

Speer was pure evil . He was a coward. As bad as the others were they stuck to their evil values . Speer confessed to save his skin

Speer was an engineer, he also knew how to engineer the trial situation to his advantage . To that end he succeeded

Why we never expected the Germans to say sorry? We keep ignoring that the German People were the NAZIS. The Third Reich with it's atrocities was implemented, supported and applauded by German NAZIS.
Before the war started, Germans eliminated their half a million population of German Jews plus all Germans with disabilities and mental issues. (euthanasia).

I do believe Speer was really remorseful when he understood what the Third Reich has done and when he saw the arrogance and denials of his fellow Nazis at Nuremberg. First he decided to admit to "Himself" first that he has been part of a horrendous regime that perpetrated horrendous crimes. What the Pastor's wife say that he did ask forgiveness from God (which is the only one that can forgive sins) and to others like Jews.

No one at his level could not have known something. I believe he didn't want to know, tried not to know, avoided it as much as he could. Karl Hanke told him that if he were ever invited to visit a place called Auschwitz, he shouldn't go. He didn't ask questions and took the advice. He later admitted he heard Himmler's speech at Posen. But what if he did know? What could he have done? Nothing. The Holocaust thing is immaterial for Speer. But Sauckel rounded up the slave labor, Speer used that labor. That alone was reason enough to hang him. He got lucky.

Just think of all the photos you see of Speer and Hitler together. A delightful personal friend of Hitler. There is no doubt he supported and was part of the final solution. A man that somehow evaded his crimes and guilt at the Nuremberg trials. This architect of evil was more than qualified to hang by the neck.

Excelleny presentaton and history about Speer. Thank you,

a complex man but i think not a bad man at heart. i have his autograph from just b4 his death.

Albert Speer was the most clever and intelligent man comparing to the others but continuous the same nazi

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I read his book thirty years ago and found it really interesting. However, I bet his victims wouldn’t have liked it…

He knew what he was doing. Fear can freeze & distort our ability to see the truth, but deep down we know: otherwise he could not have followed this demon and glorified him.

albert speer was definitely the most honest of them all

Speer and all of Germany was really asked “Do you still want to be a Nazi and accept all of that responsibility?”

Speer and those at Nuremberg made their choice, and lived and died as a result. Millions of Germans were labeled “brainwashed” even if they weren’t or supported the Nazi’s because the West gave them a choice they never gave to Jews/gays/Roma/etc: if you give up and stop the act, we’ll treat you as civilized and not warmongering maniacs.

I can imagine how big was the temptation of some officials in Israel to eliminate him after his release.

He didn't say sorry because he was saying the truth, he only said sorry because he made a deal with the Zionists and allied powers to spell out whatever crap and propaganda they wanted.

Did he ever donate the significant amount of money he made telling tall tales. How much did he donate to displaced persons he probably joked about with his ss shu s