Albert Speers Memoris Inside the Third Reich

Speer was born into a prosperous home in Mannheim in 1905. His father was a successful architect whose business was thriving in the booming industrial town. He and his siblings attended a distinguished private school. Music, the arts, and mathematics meant a great deal to the young Speer. Later, he would help Hitler attempt to put into architectural reality the grandiose vision that was the Third Reich. Cities had to be rebuilt, museums and opera halls had to be refashioned, and German culture had to become predominant in all the world.

Speer attended at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, near Mannheim. He had great respect for his professor of architecture, Daniel Krenkler, who was an Alsatian by birth. In preparing a report on architecture delivered for Krenkler's class, based upon Albrecht Haupt's bo

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s who designed France's grand opera houses and museums. Hitler had studied them as an art student, and his venture with the young Speer was one of artistic collaboration. Speer was Hitler's architect throughout the 1930s. Willis, in his World Civilizations, writes that Speer claimed that Hitler's plans to architecturally transform Germany were not just the result of egomania, but also intended to leave the legacy of a grand time for all posterity. Such plans may still be egomaniacal, despite their nationalistic veneer. Regardless, Hitler was determined to live on through his reformations: Speer . . . claimed . . . that Hitler's desire to outdo all [of the world's] existing buildings--a larger Arc de Triomphe, a wider and longer Champs Elysees, a stature bigger than the Statue of Liberty, even a suspension bridge grander than San Francisco's Golden Gate--was not only egomania, but a matter of policy. He wanted to "transmit his time and its spirit to posterity," because his buildings would represent the rebirth of national grandeur after a period of decline. (596) Hitler was the most interested in Speer when the two of them were discussing and drawing architectural renderings for a transformed Germany. As will be seen later
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