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Old Gossip with Rebecca Siegel · July 30 · 30 min

Albert Speer Was a Narc

Hello, best friends, divas, and unicorns! Let’s talk about history's worst "good Nazi," Albert Speer, who started his career as an architect, and then ended it by throwing a bunch of his cronies under the bus at the Nuremberg Trials. He was a delusional dreamer, a AND a war criminal! Wow, wow, wow. Trigger warnings: Suicide, Holocaust, Slave Labor, Antisemitism Cover art: My sister Intro song: My daughter Selected Bibliography “Building the Nazi Party Rally Grounds,” https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/topics/national-socialism/the-nazi-party-rally-grounds/building-the-nazi-party-rally-grounds Killing Hitler, by Roger Moorhouse Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich The Hitler Assassination Attempts, by John Grehan “’Wonder Weapons’ and Slave Labor,” by Michael Neufeld https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/wonder-weapons-and-slave-labor Image credits: Getty

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Hello, best friends, divas, and unicorns! Let’s talk about history's worst "good Nazi," Albert Speer, who started his career as an architect, and then ended it by throwing a bunch of his cronies under the bus at the Nuremberg Trials. He was a delusional dreamer, a AND a war criminal! Wow, wow, wow.

 

Trigger warnings: Suicide, Holocaust, Slave Labor, Antisemitism

 

Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected Bibliography

“Building the Nazi Party Rally Grounds,”

https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/topics/national-socialism/the-nazi-party-rally-grounds/building-the-nazi-party-rally-grounds

Killing Hitler, by Roger Moorhouse

Hitler (Ascent and Downfall), by Volker Ullrich

The Hitler Assassination Attempts, by John Grehan

“’Wonder Weapons’ and Slave Labor,” by Michael Neufeld https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/wonder-weapons-and-slave-labor

 

 

Image credits: Getty

 

 

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