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001 2015023355
003 DLC
005 20150624082144.0
008 150616s2015 ctu 000 0beng
010 $a 2015023355
020 $a9780300190441 (cloth : alkaline paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aDD247.S63$bK57 2015
082 00 $a943.086092$aB$223
084 $aBIO006000$aHIS027100$aHIS014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKitchen, Martin.
245 10 $aSpeer :$bHitler's architect /$cMartin Kitchen.
263 $a1509
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer's claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $a1. The Young Architect -- 2. Nuremberg and Berlin -- 3. Germania -- 4. The State of German Armaments in 1942 -- 5. Minister of Armaments -- 6. Labour : Free, Forced and Slave -- 7. The Consolidation of Power -- 8. The Challenge to Power -- 9. Miracle Weapons -- 10. The End in Sight -- 11. The End -- 12. Nuremberg -- 13. Spandau -- 14. The Good Nazi.
600 10 $aSpeer, Albert,$d1905-1981.
600 10 $aSpeer, Albert,$d1905-1981$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aCabinet officers$zGermany$vBiography.
650 0 $aArchitects$zGermany$vBiography.
650 0 $aNazis$vBiography.
650 0 $aWar criminals$zGermany$vBiography.
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945.
651 0 $aGermany$xMilitary policy.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / World War II.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Germany.$2bisacsh