Albert Speer's CRAZY Plot To KILL Hitler!
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- Albert Speer during the Nuremberg Trials that followed World War 2 managed to convince the judges that he had no knowledge of the concentration camps. During his testimony he claimed that he did use slave labour, but one of the most bizarre parts of his trial was the admission that he had secretly plotted to kill Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany and one of his closest friends. When Hitler issued the Nero Decree, a law that said all armaments factories must be destroyed to prevent them being used by the allies, Speer deemed this treason against the German people and turned against Hitler.
He defied Adolf Hitler, something which was very dangerous. As he was the Minister of Armaments, he convinced other generals not to obey this law, and many factories were left still standing. But one thing destroyed was Speer's faith in Hitler and the Nazi Party. He claimed at the trials, that he contemplated then killing Hitler whilst he was holding meetings inside of his Fuhrerbunker. The bunker inside Berlin was designed by Speer himself, so he had expert knowledge and he planned to drop tabun gas into the air vent, killing all those inside.
However Speer's plot was only just that, and he never acted on his scheme due to a number of mishaps. However when he told the courtroom of this at the post Second World War trials, all of the other Nazis including Goring, Hess and Von Ribbentrop laughed at his admission. Speer today is a controversial figure, but his plot was one of the strangest parts of the proceedings.
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Speer was incredibly intelligent and he saved his own life.
Well done, Sir, for immediately identifying Speer as a liar. Like Halder and others, he attempted to clear his own name and with the necessity of creating a compliant West Germany, the US used people like him to create the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth. He did something even worse, however. In his autobiography he claimed to have invented Thomas the Tank Engine.
I agree, he's definitely a complex and rather strange figure.
Ya know that autobiography is a telling read. It was the first book I read which caused me to pause and think this guy is ratting on himself and he doesn't even know it. It's worth mentioning (and no one ever does) that as an architect he just blew chunks. Hitler liked him because like him he had very little going for him creatively. The stuff he did at expo's and rallies is pure totalitarian chum. It would have been at home at any communist function as well, it just lacks any humanity and seems to freeze it in anyone that experiences it. Thomas in contrast is not only fun but bursting w/ life..... and weirdly haunting in a good kinda way I guess.
he died believing he was viewed as a good nazi. So upsetting such a person was allowed this much peace of mind.
I was living in such underground bunker for almost a year during war, every bunker has air purification which would clear every poison introduced from outside.
As for Speer's claims he tried to kill Hitler, documents uncovered far later show that the chimney was there all along, and Speer had changed his story about it multiple times.
He should have won an Oscar for performance for the allies.
The “good” Nazi...after the fact. His main regret was that his side lost.
Totally agree with you.
It’s my main regret too,I really like them
@@kayabahar9343 I was astonished when the mother of a German gal I knew brought out a big red album after a truly delicious meal (schpetzle and rouladen, cooked from scratch) featuring der Fuehrer in glossy black & white photos.
This was in the mid-80s, and Frau P. remained in the deepest denial.
No wonder racism is alive and well, and that such deeply ignorant types like you live among us.
Here I'd thought that we, as a civilization, had outgrown such cancers after the nightmare of Corporal Schicklgruber.
My regret as well
After Hitler's death, when Grand Admiral Dönitz fled to set up a government in Flensberg, economists working for the US Strategic Bombing Survey practically beat a path to Albert Speer's door so they could ask for his input on war industry, weapons production, and how it could be halted by bombing attacks. Always happy to save his own skin, Speer cooperated fully, telling the Americans how and where each of the Air Force's attacks succeeded and failed, his insights into Hitler's regime, how he organized the armaments ministry to be more efficient, and many other details and secrets of German weaponry besides. After he was arrested and taken to Nuremberg to stand trial, he wrote a letter to the American prosecutor reminding him of this.
I think that's the real reason why he was treated so leniently in the trials. Not because of his charm or remorse or whatever else, though those certainly didn't hurt. We were happy to take in von Braun and others from Germany and Japan who used slave labor and human experimentation to produce weapons, so we could use their expertise against the Soviet Union.
He also wrote two best selling books. Both are actually interesting but are to be taken not as truth but as his justification of himself. Worth a read but must be taken with a huge grain of salt.
I read his books when I was in my late teens. At the time, I believed him. It was only when I read other historians that I began to realize how self-serving they were.
@@condorboss3339 Same here. Very good reads. Easy to see how one could be misled.
I remember reading his books as a young child. (My father liked WWII airplanes and constantly watching war documentaries, so I ended up becoming interested in the subject myself.) I was fascinated by the story of the young architect who became the best friend of one of the most evil dictators in history and lived to regret it. I had no reason to doubt the veracity of his story, became interested in other things as I grew up, and didn't learn what a bullshitter he was until after I started studying WWII history again in adulthood.
All books must be taken with a grain of salt when they claim to represent the truth, unless the profits are donated to charity
@@condorboss3339 what other historians’ books did you read about him and what makes you think that they weren’t self-serving unless they donated the royalties to charity?
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Did the NHS bill Germany for his hospital treatment in in the seventies when he finally met his maker?
You are so informative!!!! Thankyou!!
With my head bowed, tears running down my face, I clasped his hand & said thank you. Albert speer, Fuhrer bunker 29th April 1945. Is it any wonder they laughed.
Thank you.
"once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department says Wehrner von Braun." - Tom Lehrer
Speer was a diabolical liar.
Wasn’t paintings found a few years ago that Speer had bought from forced Jewish sales that he had hidden?
Why don’t you research it and get back to us?
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeathsometimes that’s alot of work. Takes time to find the truth..
Got to admit Speer's lie was genius. The Nuremberg Court bought it hook, line, and sinker. I'm sure he laughed back when he was spared the hangman's noose.
Exactly, he was a disgusting Nazi monster like the rest.
@@terrymurphy2032 just like Wernher von Braun in America. There are buildings and streets named after him. No one's protesting that. He was a Nazi pig but reviered by so many here.
@@l.plantagenet2539 Werner von Braun gave The US rocket technology which we used to get to the Moon first.
@@bookwormaddict3933 yes, I know exactly what he did. He also used slave labour during the war. If they were laying concrete and someone fell from exhaustion the prisoners were made to just roll the concrete over them while they were still alive. This was under Wernher's watch. He was Nazi scum just like Speer.
That's a Bingo!
Great Video.
Thanks!
Love this❤
Thanks!!
Killing with gas was regularly done by the Nazi's and wasn't so crazy after all.
All his claim does is simply confirm as the self-serving, obsequious, slippery liar that he was. And, not content with slipping the Hangman’s noose, he then continued to court publicity once free from imprisonment, to rehabilitate his persona in the eyes of the World. The worst kind of filth.
Goering did not laugh but got very angry. Dont know where the 'Speer was seen as a coward' comes from. Never heard that.
The court psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, recorded that Goering actually snapped at Speer over his "betrayal" in the courtroom, and then ranted at him about it later: "How could he stoop so low just to save his lousy neck?!"
He was a construction man.
Perhaps I missed it but . . . did Speer profit financially from his best-selling books?
Great question, I imagine he did. He and his children never talked to each other from 1945 until his death in 1981.
From what I recall, he quietly donated most of the profits from his books to Jewish charities.
@@TheTrickster923that’s one way to beat the noose..
Really, Speer was a very nice man, educated and well speaking. I can't believe Speer had such plans.
Nice man!?! Are you insane…he KNEW about the Final Solution and participated working Jews to death…he was a brutal, deceptive, self-serving Nazi. There was NOTHING nice about him!!!!!!!!!
@@zoethecat7935 Sorry. I only know him from Internett. Unfortunately he did not succeed with his attack
@@zoethecat7935 Well, we have to forgive him !! He was in prison for 20 years.
Ironically, if tried under current, Democrat passed California law, Speer would not be held accountable for murders he did not directly cause and he would get nowhere near 20 year sentence.
Shrewd opportunist or heroic resistance fighter? HaHaHaaaHaaa goes Goring.
He made the whole thing up to save his skin, he was as bad as any of them.
I don't know if Speer's claim was true or not, but even if he thought about it while in the bunker, it was a little late ... I have read his closing statement at the trial, which had some integrity, but nothing about why he promoted the Third Reich for its entire time.
I don’t believe it for a second. He was trying to save his own skin.
You would to..
@@Ishbikes Maybe I would and maybe I wouldn’t. That’s inconsequential. By the way, it’s You Would Too and not “You would to”.
@@justinlane1980 you would *as well* Point still stands. *checkmate*
@@Ishbikes “Checkmate”? You really feel like you won something, don’t you? 😂 God, that’s pathetic.
@@justinlane1980 it was a joke Justin. Lighten up
Did Albert Speer plan to send Hitler..
..to the 🏰TOWER OF LONDON🏰?
Don't believe it. Sometimes wonder if in the later stages of the war he became oss. Although he should have Hung like the rest of them.
I suspect that this claim was pureB.S.
The photos mean nothing, as they are all over the time of WWII. Hit-lah and the bunk-ah were there, but in a different time. Speer, however, was trying to save himself
This dude LOVES caps...the writer not speer
Full of crap this guy. Wormed his way out of it all and it's a sad reflection of the superficiality of charm that he got 20 years whilst the charmless Sauckel got hanged.
As much as we can dismiss the inherent integrity of most of the defendants at Nuremberg, their spontaneous collective mocking of Speer's assasination plan is telling. As his rival architect Giesler said of him and this event... 'The 2nd most powerful man in the Reich and he couldn't find a ladder?'.
Speer would no doubt prosper today too, sadly.
You can find his like on the boards of every corporation around the world. The Hitlers and Himmlers we can get rid of, but the Speers will always be with us, I'm afraid.
@@TheTrickster923 From 'The Observer' newspaper towards the end of the war, I believe? Yep, a very perceptive biography, especially for the time when knowledge of him would have been more limited.
@@ShoegazingHammer74 Yes, that's what I quoted. Speer evidently thought the article was highly complimentary, and even proudly showed it to Hitler.
Auch du mein Sohn Albert?
Yes, unfortunately he did so.
Speer dissembled to whitewash his involvement. Clive James (in his excellent "Best of" book of essays) outlines this in convincing detail.
He was seduced by Hitler, who treated him like his wonder boy, and provided endless resources for his projects. But after the end of the war Speer spent all his time in books and elsewhere trying to persuade the world, and maybe himself, that he was a decent person throughout. With fair success, apparently.
But it was simply not so. As I say, for concrete instances of him contradicting himself about what he knew and wouldn't admit, James's is an extended treatment of Speer's (and various historians') slipperiness about the Nazi regime.
Is there video of the other nazis laughing at him
It would have been appropriate and ironic to use Zyklon gas to poison the bunker.
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Speer, Rommel, Guderian, Manstien, Rundstedt are my role models.
ok wehraboo
Speer was an architect that was made production chief at the end of the war, because of the incompetence of Hitler's staff.
The war goods he produced were mostly not used, because the Soviets over ran the Romanian oil fields were Germany got most of its oil.
Tanks, planes, trucks, etc won't work without fuel.
Speer died unexpectedly in a London hotel. Did the Jews kill him???
No. He had a young British mistress, and met with her when he was in London to do an interview for a documentary. While at the hotel they had so much fun together that he had a stroke and died.
Better way to go than a cyanide pill, is all I'll say.
Let’s talk about Hitler’s halitosis 🤢
He used tik tak
Or his terrible flatulence.
Speer didnt design it..............get your facts straight............
I disagree with this presentation.
Hahaha!
You would.
Bro commented a video about himself
A whole video based off opinion. That's disappointing and makes me question the integrity of your other videos.
I love your profile pic. It saddened me last year when I heard he had died of Frontotemporal Dementia. What a loss.
Thank you.
No problem, enjoy!