John Carpay: The Danger of Intellectual Laziness: How Albert Speer Became a Nazi

Canadians today are as susceptible to manipulation and emotionalism as Germans were in the 1930s

Albert Speer posing in front of his home in Heidelberg on March 3, 1971. Speer was Hitler’s minister for armaments and in 1946 was jailed for 20 years after being convicted in the post-war Nuremberg trials. -/Pressens Bild/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

“Inside the Third Reich,” the lengthy 1969 memoirs of Hitler’s cabinet minister Albert Speer (1905–1981), makes for very interesting reading.