Albert Speer Biography

Albert Speer was a German architect who, for a part of World War II, served as Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. He was Adolf Hitler's chief architect prior to assuming ministerial office. Known as "the Nazi who said sorry," Speer accepted responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi regime at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs. The extent of his involvement in the persecution of Jews and his knowledge of the Holocaust remain subjects of debate.