Word: speers
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Inside the Third Reich, a five-hour TV movie based on the best-selling 1970 memoirs of Albert Speer, is one more honorable exploitation of Nazism's awful charm. At an early Nazi reception, Speer's wife (Blythe Danner) surveys the panoply and calls it "a dress rehearsal for disaster." It was no dress rehearsal; it was a superproduction of the real thing, and the main characters acted as if they were in their own movie. Hitler (Derek Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself...
...Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's architect and builder of monuments to the Third Reich who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, used slave labor to keep the German war machine running. The only Nazi leader to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, he served 20 years before his release...
DIED. Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's master builder, a brilliant architect who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials...