Main entry:

Sereny, Gitta, author.

Title & Author:

Albert Speer : his battle with truth / Gitta Sereny.

Edition:

1st edition

Publication:

New York : Knopf, 1995.
©1995

Description:

xiv, 757 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-734) and index.
Introduction -- Prologue -- I. An Infusion of Stable Stock -- II. "I Felt He Was a Human Being" -- III. Dizzy with Excitement -- IV. A Kind of Love -- V. A Shared Devotion -- VI. "You've All Gone Completely Insane" -- VII. A Slight Discomfort -- VIII. Unleashing Murder -- IX. A Grey Path Indeed -- X. A Moral Sore -- XI. A Fatal Appointment -- XII. An Irresistible Challenge -- XIII. A Maelstrom of Intrigues -- XIV. A Blinkered Commitment -- XV. The Unbearable Truth -- XVI. "It Was Not Yet My Time" -- XVII. The Twentieth of July -- XVIII. Scorched Earth -- XIX. "I Stand Unconditionally Behind You" -- XX. He Is the Dream -- XXI. The One Interesting Person -- XXII. A Common Responsibility -- XXIII. Sandau: I -- XXIV: Sandau: II -- XXV: A Twilight in Knowing -- XXVI: The Great Lie -- Postscript -- References -- Notes -- Index.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, 1995.

Summary:

Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers. Out of her probings a huge, and hugely alive, portrait emerges. Sereny takes us through the emotional desert of Speer's childhood and marriage, through his embrace (basically, she demonstrates, for nonideological reasons) of the Nazi Party and his service as Minister of Armaments and Munitions, during which his brutal use of slave labor extended a lost war. She superbly portrays the circles in which Speer functioned: the ambivalent General Staff and the infinitely peculiar and nightmarish upper echelons of Nazism.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0394529154
9780394529158
0333645197
9780333645192
0333645200
9780333645208
0788159186
9780788159183

Subject:

Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
Speer, Albert, 1905-
Speer, Albert 1905-1981
Speer, Albert (Architekt, 1905-1981)
Nazis Biography.
War criminals Germany Biography.
Nazis Biographies.
Criminels de guerre Allemagne Biographies.
Nazis.
Politics and government
War criminals.
Biografie
Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.
Allemagne Politique et gouvernement 1933-1945.
Germany.
Speer, Albert
War criminals Biography Germany

Form/genre:

Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89132
Call No.: ID NA44.S742.3 S4; ID:95-B4573
Status: Available