Brechtken says this biography originates from his interest in the questioning of political memoirs. Eine deutsche Karriere, is by Magnus Brechtken, the deputy director of the Munich Institut für Zeitgeschichte and a professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. The new, comprehensive, modestly illustrated bio-graphy Albert Speer. Even the authors of the two posthumous biographies of Speer, Gitta Sereny and Joachim Fest, could not detach themselves from Speer’s point of view on all issues the biographies are based on conversations with him and (Figure 1) to a great extent ignore archival documents and historical research ( Sereny 1995 Fest 1999).Ĭover of Magnus Brechtken’s Albert Speer. Speer’s portrayal of the Nazi regime and Hitler’s circle shaped post-war historiography, a contribution that has been almost unchallenged. In the Federal Republic, he became a bestselling author and one of the most cited witnesses of the Nazi era. At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer, despite his tireless commitment to the machinery of death and his central role in Nazi crimes, received only a 20-year prison sentence, which he served until 1966.
The importance we attribute to him today is due not primarily to his work as an architect but to his role as one of the leading protagonists of the National Socialist regime, about which he spoke as a firsthand witness after World War II. Eine deutsche Karriere, Munich: Siedler Verlag, 912 pages, 2017 ISBN: 978-3-8275-0040-3, with colour and b&w illustrations.Īlbert Speer ( 1905–1981) undoubtedly occupies a special position in architectural history his biography differs from that of all other 20th-century architects. Atli Magnus Seelow, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SE
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