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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kitchen, Martin.

Speer: Hitler’s architect/Martin Kitchen.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-300-19044-1 (cloth: alkaline paper)

1. Speer, Albert, 1905–1981. 2. Speer, Albert, 1905–1981—Political and social views. 3. Cabinet officers—Germany—Biography. 4. Architects—Germany—Biography. 5. Nazis—Biography. 6. War criminals—Germany—Biography. 7. Germany—Politics and government—1933–1945. 8. Germany—Military policy. I. Title.

DD247.S63K57 2015

943.086092—dc23

[B]

2015023355

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