Hitler's Architect
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Among the leading Nazi inmates in Berlin’s Spandau prison, which was closed in August 1987, was Hitler's architect and minister of war, Albert Speer. He was the only top Nazi who later apologised for the Holocaust, although he claimed he never knew it was happening. Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to the journalist Roger George Clark, who interviewed Speer a decade after his release at his home in West Germany.
Picture: Albert Speer standing at the gate of his house near Heidelberg in December 1979. (Credit: Roger George Clark)
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
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| 1:11.1 | at BBC Sounds. |
| 1:12.3 | Hello and welcome to the witness podcast with me Louis Adalgo. |
| 1:16.0 | In August 1987 the closure was ordered of spanned out prison in Berlin where seven |
| 1:22.1 | leading Nazi war criminals had been held |
| 1:24.4 | after the end of the Second World War. Among its inmates had been Hitler's |
| 1:28.4 | architect and minister of war, Albert Schpier. I've been speaking to the journalist Roger George Clark who |
| 1:34.8 | interviewed Speer a decade after his release at his home in West Germany. |
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