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Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II. | 1905-03-19 | 1981-09-01 | Mannheim, Germany |
Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a close confidant of Adolf Hitler1.
While serving a life sentence in Spandau prison, Speer recounted Rudolf Hess's motivation for his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. Speer wrote in Inside the Third Reich that "Hess assured me in all seriousness that the idea had been inspired in him in a dream by supernatural forces"1.
Speer also noted Adolf Hitler's reaction to Heinrich Himmler's interest in the occult, quoting Hitler as saying, "What nonsense! Here we have at last reached an age that has left all mysticism behind it, and now he [Himmler] wants to start that all over again. We might just as well have stayed with the church"1.
Publications
- Inside the Third Reich
Footnotes
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Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎