Frases de Albert Speer
Albert Speer
Fecha de nacimiento: 19. Marzo 1905
Fecha de muerte: 1. Septiembre 1981
Para el hijo de Albert Speer, véase Albert Speer .
Albert Speer fue un arquitecto alemán y Ministro de Armamento y Guerra del Tercer Reich durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Speer fue arquitecto jefe de Adolf Hitler antes de asumir la oficina ministerial. Se lo conoce como «el nazi que pidió perdón» porque en los juicios de Núremberg y en sus memorias aceptó su responsabilidad en los crímenes del régimen nazi. A pesar de ello, su nivel de implicación en la persecución de los judíos y su conocimiento del Holocausto siguen siendo motivo de controversia.
Speer se unió al Partido nazi en 1931 y enseguida comenzó una carrera política y gubernamental que duró catorce años. Su formación como arquitecto le ayudó a ganar importancia dentro del partido y además se convirtió en miembro del círculo más cercano al Führer, pues Hitler le encargó diseñar y construir varios edificios, entre ellos la Cancillería del Reich y el Campo Zeppelín de Núremberg, sede de los multitudinarios congresos del partido. Speer también diseñó una ambiciosa reconstrucción de Berlín que contemplaba la creación de enormes edificios, amplias avenidas y un sistema de transportes reorganizado. Ministro de Armamento y Guerra de Adolf Hitler desde febrero de 1942, Speer fue capaz de mantener durante el conflicto una elevada producción de material militar a pesar de los masivos y devastadores bombardeos de los Aliados sobre Alemania.
Acabada la guerra, fue juzgado en Núremberg y sentenciado a veinte años de prisión por su rol en el régimen nazi, principalmente por el uso de trabajadores forzados. Cumplió toda su condena, la mayor parte de ella en la prisión de Spandau, en Berlín Oeste, y tras su liberación en 1966 publicó dos exitosos libros autobiográficos: Memorias: Hitler y el Tercer Reich vistos desde dentro y Diario de Spandau. En ellos detalla su estrecha relación con Hitler y ofrece una perspectiva única sobre el funcionamiento del régimen nazi. Más tarde escribió un tercer libro, Infiltración, sobre las SS. Albert Speer murió por causas naturales en 1981 durante una visita a Londres.
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„The young district leader chose Baubaus wallpapers at my suggestion, although I had hinted that these were “Communist” wallpapers. He waved that warning aside with a grand gesture: “We will take the best of everything, even from the Communists.” In saying this he was expressing what Hitler and his staff had already been doing for years: picking up anything that promised success without regard for ideology…“
— Albert Speer
p. 22
„The sacrifices which were made on both sides after January 1945 were without sense. The dead of this period will be the accusers of the man responsible for the continuation of that fight, Adolf Hitler, just as much as the destroyed cities, destroyed in that last phase, who had lost tremendous cultural values and tremendous numbers of dwellings.... The German people” he said” remained faithful to Adolf Hitler until the end. He has betrayed them knowingly. He has tried to throw them into the abyss...“
— Albert Speer
As quoted by chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson in the closing summation of the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials on July 26, 1946
„Actually, a kind of state socialism seemed to be gaining more and more ground, furthered by many of the [Nazi] party functionaries. They had already managed to have all plants owned by the state distributed among the various party districts and subordinated to their own district enterprises... Our very system of industrial direction in the interests of war production could easily become the framework for a state-socialist economic order. The result was that our organization, the more efficient it became, was itself providing the party leaders with the instruments for the doom of private enterprise.“
— Albert Speer
p. 359
„I felt this coming. I tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler in 1945. I am not concerned with jurisdiction of the court as Hess or others are. History will show the trials to be necessary.“
— Albert Speer
To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - (2004)
„In contrast to the ultimate realization that he was dealing with a formidable enemy in the east, Hitler clung to the end to his preconceived opinion that the troops of the Western countries were poor fighting material. Even the Allied successes in Africa and Italy could not shake his belief that these soldiers would run away at the first serious onslaught. He was convinced that these soldiers would run away from the first serious onslaught. He was convinced that democracy enfeebled a nation. As late as the summer of 1944 he held to his theory that all the ground that had been lost in the West would be quickly reconquered. His opinions on the Western statesmen had a similar bias. He considered Churchill, as he often stated during the situation conferences, an incompetent, alcoholic demagogue. And he asserted in all seriousness that Roosevelt was not a victim of infantile paralysis but of syphilitic paralysis and was therefore mentally unsound. These opinions, too, were indications, of his flight from reality in the last years of his life.“
— Albert Speer
p. 306-307
„The tremendous danger, however, contained in this totalitarian system only became abundantly clear at the moment when we were approaching the end. It was then that one could see what the meaning of the principle was, namely, that every order should be carried out without any criticism. Everything... you have seen in the way of orders which were carried out without any consideration, did after all turn out to be mistakes... This system let me put it like this to the end of the system it had become clear what tremendous dangers are contained in any such system, as such quite apart from Hitler's principle. The combination of Hitler and this system, then, brought about this tremendous catastrophe to this world.“
— Albert Speer
As quoted by chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson in the closing summation of the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials on July 26, 1946
„At a situation conference early in February the maps showed the catastrophic picture of innumerable breakthroughs and encirclements. I drew Doenitz aside: "Something must be done, you know." Doenitz replied with unwonted curtness: "I am here only to represent the navy. The rest is none of my business. The Fuehrer must know what he is doing."“
— Albert Speer
p. 427
„A new large-scale war will end with the destruction of human culture and civilization. Therefore, this this trial must contribute toward preventing such degenerate wars in the future, and toward establishing rules whereby human beings can live together.“
— Albert Speer
Nuremberg trials, (31 August 1945)
„Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.“
— Albert Speer
1946. Quoted in "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial" by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent - Drama - (1997)
„So long as Hitler had temperamental outbursts of hate, there was yet hope for a change towards more moderate directions. Therefore, it was the resoluteness and coldness which made his outbreaks against the Jews so convincing. In other areas when he announced horrifying decisions in a cold and quiet voice, those around him, and I myself knew that things had now become serious. And with just this cold superiority he declared also, when we occasionally had lunch together, that he was set to destroy the Jews in Europe.“
— Albert Speer
Testimony of Albert Speer, Munich, (15th June 1977)
