Albert Speer was a close confidant of Hitler, and the Third Reich's most celebrated architect. Later promoted by the Nazi leader as minister for armaments, Speer was instrumental in the ...

These are those Nazis. Albert Speer (1905-1981) was Hitler’s chief architect and, from 1942, his Reich Minister for Armaments. He was a quiet and reserved man, but as he would later prove ...

The most vivid event was an outdoor evening rally of party leaders. In 1935 Hitler's architect Albert Speer arranged to have 150 searchlights surround the field, pointing straight up, in what ...