Albert Speer Quotes

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

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

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.

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

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

I was not a member of the SS.

The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.