Talk:Inside the Third Reich

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I just created this article, and would appreciate additions and subtractions. If anyone has read "Speer: His Battle With the Truth," the inclusion of that book's points would be extremely useful. --L. 15:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Great work! Maybe the section talking about Speer's contradictions is not clear enought, but I've not the knowledge to improve it, sorry :(

[edit] Seniority

As a purely technical nit-pick: in saying that Speer was the most senior Nazi to survive both the war and the Nuremburg trials, does this not overlook both Donitz, who was briefly the Führer and Hess, who was for some long time the Deputy Führer?--Anthony.bradbury 23:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] confusing sentence

The last sentence of this paragraph is confusing and seems to be a non sequitur, or at least missing a key piece that would connect it:

In the book, Speer claimed to have contemplated Hitler's assassination in early 1945 to end the war. However, aside from an affidavit from one of his friends, Dieter Stahl, there is no evidence to substantiate this. In fact, in the late 1990s, examination of Royal Air Force photographs of Hitler's bunker near the end of the war directly contradicts Speer's claims.

How would Royal Air Force photographs of Hitler's bunker contradict Speer's claims that he had contemplated Hitler's assassination? --Delirium 21:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

1. Speer claimed that in mid-March of 1945, he examined the air filter to the bunker, and this caused him to comptemplate Hitler's assassination by dropping poison gas through the air shafts. Nuremburg testimony and ITTR.

2. A few days later, Speer returned to the bunker, to find that a guarded chimney was now over the grate. This caused him to drop any ideas on the gas attack. Nuremburg testimony, and Dieter Stahl's affidavid.

3. The chimney going up in about 48 hours was, as Speer admitted when pressed, a rather quick and timely precaution. He speculated that Hentchsel or another bunker technician must have run a "crash program" to get it up so quickly. Nuremburg testimony.

4. The RAF photos revealed that the chimney, which Speer claimed wasn't built until March, was up by January 1945. However, only until recently was the bunker able to pinpointed in these photos (if it had been pinpointed in 1945, history would be much different). Royal Air Force.

5. Ergo sum - even Speer's claim of "contemplation" of Hitler's assassination, as well as the affadavid, was false due to irrefutable physical evidence. The History Channel, Modern Marvels. --76.16.160.102 01:22, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the sociopath

i didn't know about the controversies, but now for me seems that Speer was the sociopath he claimed Hitler was, because the things that are not well explained about him are kinda "key facts", maybe he just did everything he could to benefit himself despite of truth. just compare the things he said with the things he did. i'd like more links to discussion about this book and the author, i'd add it but i'd get my ass kicked then. and Delirium made a good question up there, someone should explain that 'cause could be one more factor to contribute to the theory speer was a cold cold nut.