One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

- Albert Speer

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his b…

- Albert Speer

Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of…

- Albert Speer

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling th…

- Albert Speer

The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifice…

- Albert Speer

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships t…

- Albert Speer

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

- Albert Speer

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. T…

- Albert Speer

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

- Albert Speer