He was a very high ranking office in the Nazi party, what did he testify to when he was on trial that got him a very light sentence?
2006-12-23 11:20:09 · 7 answers · asked by cereal_killer034 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Albert Speer-
"The NAZI who said 'I'm Sorry'..."
German Architect and 'Minister of Armaments' during WWII.
He is directly responsible for the German Industrial revolution that was able to survive and continue the production of war material until almost the very end of the war.
According to a BBC documentary, he is credited with saying "I'm sorry" during the trials and was probably one of the very few to do so. He was put on trial specifically for "the use of slave labor from the various concentration camps".
He was released in 1966 after serving a 20 year sentence, and he died in 1981 denying publicly that the Holocaust had ever happened at all.
2006-12-23 11:30:27 · answer #1 · answered by wolf560 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
1. It's not Albert Spears; it's Albert Speer.
2. In his testimony at Nuremberg, he accepted responsibility for his actions as Hitler's minister of armaments for the Third Reich as well as the actions of other Nazis which he had no control over. He was the only defendant on the docket to admit this level of responsibility. That is the reason for his comparatively light sentence.
3. The link below will give you a per verbatim record of his testimony at the Nuremberg trails in 1946.
2006-12-23 11:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by john l 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Albert Spears
Count I: Indicted Not Guilty
Count II: Indicted Not Guilty
Count III: Indicted Guilty
Count IV: Indicted Guilty
Sentenced to: Twenty years imprisonment
Speer was Hitler’s personal architect and a personal friend. He also held important positions in the Nazi party. The evidence did not show him as a participant in the plans for war. He was, however, extremely active in the slave labor program. His defense was that he used these laborers only because the demand for labor was so great. He was known to ensure the laborers had food and sufficient work conditions so their work was effective. He also condoned the use of concentration camps for “slackers”.
2006-12-23 11:27:42 · answer #3 · answered by Martha P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a squeal cheese and got a lighter sentence by giving up the rest of his comarades. Nothing unusual.
But he knew they all knew, and all the civilians in Berlin and Germany knew as well. How could they not know when they were living in houses they could never afford, that belonged to dead Jews lying in ditches or waiting for death in the camps. They were wearing their shoes, eye glasses, jewelry , clothes, what did they all do 6 million of them just disappear and give up their homes businesses everywhere? Please spare me the BS. They all profitted by the death of millions of people, gypsies, Armenians, Polish, Czechs, French, Brits, etc., as well as Jews, and dont forget all the people we lost here in America our Soldiers. And yet America and many other countries gave immunity to some of the Nazis and let them in our countries after the war? Why? Because some of these people in our own governments want this New World Order, not target the Jews but all people, to control us all. They allowed Mengele to escape and allowed him to continue in Argentina and Brazil his hideous experiments (prothesis, artificail limbs) DNA and eyes. He tortured those innocent people in the Amazon and no one cared either. That war never ended it is still going on. Look up Mengele www.history.com He escaped with lots of money he got from dead Jews. Swiss bank accounts, Sam Weisenthal Organization found all these bank accounts and forced them to give all that money back.
2006-12-23 11:33:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-15 07:04:21 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He basically confessed to what he,and the other Nazis had done,while the others were in denial,and had appeared to be remorseful about it.Albert Speer then wrote his own account of
the Nazi regime in his memoirs.
2006-12-23 11:38:10 · answer #6 · answered by Cheri F 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he testified he did not know about the NAZI death camps and blamed the Head of the SS for the death camps.
2006-12-23 11:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by max power 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋