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SPEER
author of
Inside The Third Reich
Spandau
The
Secret Diaries

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Albert Speer

ALBERT SPEER'S SECRET PRISON DIARIES

For twenty years Speer secretly wrote his memoirs in a minuscule scrawl! on tobacco wrappings, pages of calendars, and toilet paper. Under constant peril of cell searches, he concealed his notes in the sole lining of a shoe and in the bandage wrapped around his leg to relieve his phlebitis, and managed to persuade sympathetic guards to smuggle them to the outside world.

After being convicted in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the prisoners were not allowed to have writing paper. However, they were allowed to have toilet paper. So, on thousands of squares of toilet paper, Albert Speer wrote his diary in tiny letters.

Albert Speer was a brilliant writer and the world should be forever grateful to him for leaving us this work, that addresses and attempts to answer questions the worid will always be asking, including:

1. How was Adolph Hitler, an obvious madman, totally insane, able to attain and keep such great power?

1. Why did the Germ an people not recognize what was happening and do something about it long before the destructive end?

1. Most importantly: Can this happen again? Could and will another Hitler arise, perhaps not in Germ any again? Perhaps in the United States o f Am erica? W hat assurance do we have that a lunatic madman could not enter the White House and do much worse than Hitler ever did?

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SPANDAU

The Secret Diaries

Translated from the German by

RICHARD and CLARA WINSTON

ISHI PRESS
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Spandau
The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer

First Published in German in 1975 as

Spandauer Tagebiicher by Verlag-Ullstein GmbH in Frankfurt/Main - Berlin

This Printing in February, 2010
by Ishi Press in New York and Tokyo with a new foreword by Sam Sloan

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HITLER NEMESIS

1936-1945

IAN

KERSHAW

ISBN 0-393-04994-9

"[W]ill

become

$35.00

the classic Hitler biography of

—Gordon

our time."

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were

1936: the eyes of the world

elaborately decked out for the Olympic

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trained

on

Berlin,

Games. Aside from

the swastikas unfurled inside and outside the massive sta-

dium, visitors to the sive regime. Nazi

were on

Hitler,

games saw scant evidence

Germany and

its

their best behavior. Yet,

away from

an ominous war machine was

tacle

in Berlin,

large

segments of the German population

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lan

Kershaw opens

bringing the nation out of

four pillars of the Nazi

regime—the civil

the spec-

the making.

in

monumental volume,

this

economic

the industrial cartels, and the

of a repres-

unchallenged leader, Adolf

idolize Hitler for

Supported by

despair.

the

Party,

armed

service— Hitler

is

forces,

poised

to realize his Mephistophelian vision: the subjugation of

Europe under the Thousand Year Reich and,

in

the process,

the annihilation of the Jews. Meanwhile, a continent

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carrying the scars of the First World

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still

largely ignores his

blueprints for conquest.

Soon

Nazis,

Hitler

embarks on expansion. With

chilling effi-

he annexes Austria with the support of rabid

ciency,

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after

local

hoodwinking European leaders

in

Munich, undertakes a lightning conquest of Czechoslovakia. His invasion of Poland plunges

clysmic war, a war that Hitler

genius to conduct.

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Europe headlong

is

into a cata-

convinced he alone has the

unsparing prose, Kershaw describes

the slaughter of conquered troops and civilians alike as

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fanatical SS units,

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