Albert Speer was with no uncertainty a significant figure and member within the Nationalist Socialist Party who contributed a noteworthy amount to Nazi ideology and practice. His influence however within the Nazi Party grew as time went on holding key positions such as Hitler’s architect, Head of German Labour Front and Minister for Armaments and Munitions from 8 February 1942 among other tasks. At this position Speer had substantial power and was also said to be the second most powerful man in the Third Reich after Hitler.

In 1934 Speer became the ‘First Architect of the Reich,’ before this however he had menial tasks such as renovating the Gauhaus in Berlin and organising a backdrop for the May Day rally at the Templehof airfield in Berlin 1933. Hitler was pleased with the effect and atmosphere that Speer had created which Hitler noticed and commented ‘ young untried architect who could carry the party’s ideology and his own architectural ideas past his lifetime…’ this was followed with Speer asked to organise the Nuremberg rally of 1933 creating his famous ‘Cathedral of Light’ effect and he crafted the great scale of stylis

Speer was named General Building Inspector and in 1937 was handed a major task in which may have been his ‘most ambitious architectural project of his career’ which was to build ‘Germania’, the capital of the new Reich that was previously known as Berlin which was to be built with stone to support an image of the ‘thousand year reich,’ this was also used for propaganda purposes by the means of an impressive extent and in an approach that would endure a thousand years, thus solidifying Nazi ideology in the process. The buildings were meant to uphold the new community spirit of Germany and be a living display of the extent to German’s of their racial community. Speer nevertheless went over the designs with Hitler and started this project by evicting inhabitants from the apartments in the inner city for the start of reconstruction of which out of 52 000 apartments 23 000 belonged to Jewish families. Speer has caused much debate over the years on whether he had any comprehension about the ‘Final Solution or had contributed to the Nazi racial policy,’ but it was Speer’s officials who searched the city for other Jewish flats for those Aryans who that had to be re-housed as their homes were taken- this could be supported and takes back to the Nazi racial theory that Jews were untermeinschen and that Aryans was the master race. This showed that Speer was indeed practicing Nazi ideology with the building of a new Germany which was intertwined with racial policies and his architecture, but nonetheless he later denied that he knew anything of the sort and protested his innocence to any anti-Semitic activity. As Gitta Sereny says in response to this debate in the p

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