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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIARIES ARE USUALLY the accompaniment of a lived life. This one stand in place of a life." On that dramatic note, Nazi war criminal Albert Speer begins his chronicle of his twenty years in the Spandau prison run by the four Allied powers. Speer, after openly acknowledging his guilt, was convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal for his role in the Nazi use of forced foreign labor in German factories. In his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, published four years after his release in 1966, Speer criticized his fellow Nazis for their refusal to admit any guilt, while professing anguish...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Nazi Notebooks | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...SPANDAU: THE SECRET DIARIES by ALBERT SPEER 463 pages. Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Master Builder | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...Guards. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron, Speer explained the background in which the book was written, stressing that his confinement in Spandau had a greater personal meaning for him than his important role in Nazi Germany. One reason is that the Nazi era lasted only twelve years, while Speer remained jailed in Spandau until 1966-a full 20 years. Originally built to house about 600 convicts, the mammoth, rust-red prison was requisitioned after World War II by the Allies for the sole purpose of locking up Speer and six other senior Nazi officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: 13,175 Miles Around the Yard | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Reading provided a major outlet for Speer's mental energy. "Spandau was truly my education," he muses. Allowed to borrow from Berlin's libraries, Speer sometimes devoured as many as 50 books a month. He also became an enthusiastic gardener. "It became my salvation," he confessed last week. Terracing, weeding and pruning, he worked at the plot in the prison yard four or five hours daily. "I became something of a landscape architect, you might say," he says-a joking reference to the architectural skills that originally brought him to the attention of Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: 13,175 Miles Around the Yard | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...book will be published in the U.S. by Macmillan next year under the title Inside the Walls of Spandau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: 13,175 Miles Around the Yard | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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