What is Albert Speer?
{{unsourced|date=February 2013}} [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146II-277, Albert Speer.jpg|thumb|150px|Albert Speer (1933)]] '''Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer''' (19 March 1905 in [[Mannheim]], [[Baden-Württemberg]] [[German Empire|Germany]]&nbsp;– 1 September 1981 in [[London]], [[England]]) was a leading [[Germany|German]] [[architect]] in the [[Third Reich]]. Speer was born on 19 March 1905 in [[Mannheim]], [[Baden]], [[German Empire|Germany]]. He joined the [[Nazi Party]] in 1931 and was [[Adolf Hitler]]'s chief architect before he became the [[Minister (government)|minister]] for munitions and armaments in 1942, replacing [[Fritz Todt]] in the [[Cabinet]]. After World War II he was convicted of slavery and spent 20 years in prison. After being released he wrote two autobiographical books. He portrayed himself as a well educated and apolitical architect who regretted failing to know the bad things Hitler and the Nazis were doing. Speer died of a [[stroke]] in 1 September 1981 in London. His son, [[Albert Speer Jr.]] was also an architect.{{IMT defendants}} {{Hitler's Cabinet}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Speer, Albert}} [[Category:1905 births]] [[Category:1981 deaths]] [[Category:German architects]] [[Category:German prisoners]] [[Category:German war criminals]] [[Category:Government ministers of Nazi Germany]] [[Category:Holocaust perpetrators]] [[Category:Members of the Reichstag (Nazi Germany)]] [[Category:Politicians from Mannheim]] [[Category:Politicians of the Nazi Party]] [[Category:Sturmabteilung people]] [[Category:SS officers]] [[Category:German Protestants]]