In which city was Albert Speer born in 1905?
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Mannheim
He came from a wealthy family of architects and grew up in Heidelberg.
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Foto: Atelier Binder (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146II-277) · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
Who is shown here?
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Albert Speer
Portrait by the Berlin studio Atelier Binder.
What profession had Albert Speer trained for?
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architect
He studied in Karlsruhe, Munich and Berlin and worked as assistant to Heinrich Tessenow.
What was the name of the effect of 130 vertically beamed anti-aircraft searchlights that Speer designed for the Nuremberg rallies?
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the cathedral of light
The columns of light reached several kilometres into the sky and turned the rally into a pseudo-religious spectacle.
Which seat of government did Speer erect in Berlin in about a year in 1938/39?
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the New Reich Chancellery
Visitors had to walk more than 200 metres through halls and galleries to reach Hitler's study; they were meant to feel small.
💡 Did you know? The ruin was cleared after 1945; its marble is said to have been used in the Soviet War Memorial in Treptow, among other places.
Which name was Berlin to bear as a “world capital” under Speer's and Hitler's rebuilding plans?
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Germania
Its centrepiece was to be a domed hall for 180,000 people. From 1939 thousands of Jewish tenants were evicted from their flats for the plans.
Which ministry did Speer take over in 1942 after the death of Fritz Todt?
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the Armaments Ministry
Under him armaments production peaked in 1944: despite the Allied air raids.
Whom did the armaments industry under Speer exploit by the million?
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forced labourers
In the underground plant Mittelbau-Dora near Nordhausen, where the V-2 rocket was built, thousands of prisoners died.
How many years in prison did the Nuremberg tribunal give Speer?
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20 years
He served the full sentence in Spandau prison and was released in 1966.
Under which English title were Speer's 1969 memoirs published?
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Inside the Third Reich
The book became a worldwide success and long shaped the image of the seduced technocrat; the publisher Wolf Jobst Siedler and Joachim Fest helped shape it.
In which city did Speer die in 1981 while travelling?
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London
He had come for an interview with the BBC and suffered a stroke there.
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