ILLUSTRATIONS

1Speer, 1933. BArch, Bild 146II-277 / o.Ang.

2Speer as a child with his brother. ullstein bild.

3Speer and Margarete on their wedding day, Berlin, 1928. bpk.

4Paul Ludwig Troost, 1933. ullstein bild.

5Wilhelm Kreis, 1920s.

6Speer presents plans to Hitler at the Berghof, 1934. Granger, NYC.

7The ‘Cathedral of Light’ above the Zeppelintribune, Nuremburg, 1936. BArch, Bild (o.Ang.).

8Speer presents Hitler with a model of the German Pavilion he has designed for the World’s Fair in Paris, 1937. Mary Evans Picture Library.

9Speer, Hitler and Mayor Willy Liebel inspect the Nazi Party rally grounds under construction in Nuremberg, 1938. BArch, Bild 183-2004-1103-501 / o.Ang.

10View of the garden front of the New Reich Chancellery, c.1940–41. Photo by Max Krajewski.

11The Marble Gallery, New Reich Chancellery, 1939. BArch, Bild 183-K1216-501 / Heinrich Hoffmann.

12Hitler’s study, New Reich Chancellery, 1939. akg-images.

13Model of Germania, 1939–44. BArch, Bild 146III-373 / o.Ang.

14Speer with Hitler, Hermann Giesler and others in Paris, 1940. BArch, Bild 183-H28708 / o.Ang.

15Arno Breker sculpting a bust of Speer, 1942. ullstein bild – Rohrbach.

16Speer and Hitler taking a walk together at Obersalzberg, 1940. ullstein bild.

17Hitler with some of Speer’s children at the Berghof, 1942. ullstein bild – Walter Frentz.

18Speer driving five of his six children in a BMW convertible.

19Robert Ley, Speer and Herbert Backe at Wannsee, 1942. BArch, Bild 183-B21775 / o.Ang.

20Hitler awards Speer the Fritz Todt Prize, 1943. BArch, Bild 146-1979-026-22 / Heinrich Hoffmann.

21Speer, Xaver Dorsch and Karl Dönitz on a submarine, 1943–44. BArch, Bild 146III-372 / o.Ang.

22Speer inspects a Soviet T-34, 1943. BArch, Bild 183-J14589 / Willi Kobierowski.

23Speer, Goebbels and others at Peenemünde, 1943. BArch, Bild 146-1992-093-13A / Hans Hubmann.

24Speer, Erhard Milch and others watch a V1 launch, 1943. BArch, Bild 183-J15733 / o.Ang.

25Heinrich Himmler directs Speer and others during the preparation for Hindenburg’s funeral, 1934. akg-images.

26Survivors lie among corpses at Mittelbau-Dora, c.1945. DachauKZ.

27The ‘Staircase of Death’ at Mauthausen, 1939–44. BArch, Bild 192-269 / o.Ang.

28Speer makes a speech to munitions workers in a bomb-damaged factory, 1944. BArch, Bild 146-1981-052-06A / o.Ang.

29Speer demonstrates the increase in German arms production before company managers of the armaments industry, 1944. ullstein bild.

30Speer on the western front, 1944. BArch, Bild 183-1984-1206-511 / Willi Ruge.

31Speer’s arrest, 1945. BArch, Bild 146-1985-079-31 / o.Ang.

32Speer in his cell at Nuremberg, 1945. Image courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

33Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Photograph courtesy of Aidan J. McQuade.

34Speer gardening in Spandau. ullstein bild – Sakowitz.

35Speer and Margarete after his release from prison, 1966. ullstein bild – Imagno / Votava.

36Speer presents The Spandau Diaries (1966), 1975.