ng any thought to the problems of society" (Memoirs 9). Had Speer given more youthful thought to subjects such as political power, demagoguery, tyranny, and race in society, he might not have so easily fallen into the powerful sway of the National Socialist party, but in 1931, he was ready for easy conversion.
Speer's technical school, the Institute of Technology, had become a center of National Socialist endeavors. One of the Institute's professors, a man named Tessenow, became the unwitting mouthpiece for Hitler's own nationalistic views on culture. Tessenow was not aware of the manner in which Hitler would use his teachings in a recruitment speech given to impressionable students such as the young Speer. According to Speer in his memoirs, "Among other things, Tessenow taught: 'Style comes from the people. It is in our nature to love our native land. There can be no true culture that is international. True culture comes only from the maternal womb of a nation'" (Memoirs 14). It is frightening to consider that students were immersed in such anti
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