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raccoon

(31,110 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2018, 07:31 AM Jul 2018

In an alternate universe, Albert Speer would've made a kick-butt

Defense lawyer.

I still don’t get how he avoided the death penalty. I have read about how he came across as a “good Nazi“, he seemed repentant, but no way he could’ve not known what was going on in the concentration camps. His department got workers from the camps for God’s sake.

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In an alternate universe, Albert Speer would've made a kick-butt (Original Post) raccoon Jul 2018 OP

Of course he knew what was going on, but those were difficult times... TreasonousBastard Jul 2018 #1

Speer has always been a puzzlement to me. Girard442 Jul 2018 #2

"I still don't get how he avoided the death penalty" - *that's* the answer. 'good Nazi" MEH. UTUSN Jul 2018 #3

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

1. Of course he knew what was going on, but those were difficult times...

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 08:01 AM

Jul 2018

and he did get his 20 years.

I'm more curious about how Leni Riefenstahl managed to get away with it.

Girard442

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2. Speer has always been a puzzlement to me.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 08:21 AM

Jul 2018

I can see being totally amoral and climbing to success on the backs of millions of dead people, repulsive as that may be. What I don't get is that a smart guy like Speer really should have been able to see that the Third Reich would inevitably end in disaster but didn't act accordingly.

UTUSN

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3. "I still don't get how he avoided the death penalty" - *that's* the answer. 'good Nazi" MEH.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 10:15 PM

Jul 2018

When I was a teenager I read the top post-WWII books (Rise/Fall, SPEER's memoirs) and bought the "good Nazi" meme. Now (old, cynical me) I don't buy it and there are recent books saying it, that his "repentance" was a ploy. Same today, where some of our confreres here wonder how John KELLY or Melanie or whoever are "better angels" who are ameliorating SHITLER's bad side - bah humbug. Anybody associated with SHITLER joined him BECAUSE they shared/reflected his putrid soul, and the same goes for SPEER with HITLER.

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