... time with a view to setting up the concentration camp there. On June 30, 1938, first negotiations for the supply of building material for a period of ten years were started between Albert Speer, the "Fuhrer's Architect" and "General Buildings Inspector for the Remodeling of the Capital of the German Reich, Berlin", and DEST-company (Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH ... ). Albert Speer granted an interest-free loan of RM 9.5 million to DEST. Subsequently, DEST leased Quarries named "Wiener Graben", "Marbacher Bruch", and "Bettelberg" owned by the City of Vienna. It later ... ...

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... saw it as a threat to the Nazi way of thinking because it was an institution that encouraged freethinking and individuality, which was anathema to a dictatorship. It is a curious anomaly that Albert Speer, Hitler's favourite architect and the creator of much of the grandiose architecture of Third Reich, must actually have believed Gropius's philosophy of "to build is to shape the pattern ... ...

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... genius and had also failed to endure in the struggle for life. Little by little his person became weaker and weaker, as did the loyalty of his lieutenants. For example Albert Speer who was the minister of armaments and munitions, refused to carry out Hitler's order to establish a scorched-earth policy in Germany. Now all his lieutenants tried to rethink what ... ...

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Why Hitler? How is it that Germany, who has produced such geniuses like Amadeus Mozart, Albert Einstein, and Ludwig von Beethoven, could elect someone as evil and diabolical as Adolf Hitler? In 1920, Hitler joined a small right-wing political group that wanted to overturn the effects ... ...

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... the first ten there were Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Ley, Rossenberg, Frick, Kietel, Streicher, Kaltenbrunner and Frank suggested by the British. The Americans proposed five others: Karl Doenitz, Arthur Seyss Inquart, Albert Speer, Hjalmar Schacht and Walter Funk. The last three interested the Americans in that there emphasis on the economic aspects of the Nazi aggression.(Persico 239) The presentation of the ... ...

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