Speer: Hitler's Architect

Read this for HSC Modern History's works. Martin Kitchen's book not only challenges the view of Speer as a creative architecture and a brilliant organiser but also exposes the extend of his ruthlessness as an opportunist & careerist within Nazi regime. The final chapter, “The Good Nazi”, is especially captivating in its discussing in-depth of how the man claimed to be apolitical managed to make a fortune out of his intimate relationship with the Fuhrer. Although the details of Speer's involvement in issues of the Jew Flats and the Final Solution are extremely plausible, I personally think that Martin Kitchen has played down his archivements as Hitler's favourite architect and the Minister of War Production.