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Alan
Heath writes from Poland on with more points about Albert Speer
Points on Albert Speer (2)
I READ with interest your comments on your meeting with [Hitler’s munitions minister]
Albert Speer — everyone’s favourite Nazi. Speer earned that position by his seemingly honest and frank approach to what had happened during the war and particularly to the way he accounted for his stance against the scorched-earth policy in Germany.
As far as the holocaust is concerned he did admit some time shortly before his 1981 death in London that he had known about it but turned a blind eye to it.
What he seems to have forgotten was that he was the lead instigator in having Jewish people evicted from their homes in Berlin from 1938 on — not perhaps equitable yet with mass murder — but certainly an initial step in this direction given that homelessness without any other resources forces a person to rely completely on hand outs from others.
As far as his visit to the I.G. Farben works in Auschwitz is concerned he would have no reason necessarily to know what was going on inside Birkenau [Auschwitz
II] but in “his” memoirs he states that in a talk with the shocked Upper Silesian gauleiter [Karl Hanke] he was warned never to go there, even if he were invited.
Something here seems amiss.
Alan
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