Albert Speer

“One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.”

“For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust.”

“In the end, as always, Hitler was the sole master of the situation.”

“It is the nature of the dictator to run secretive organizations.”

“All sensible people are against war.”

“Twelve years of a totalitarian regime have stripped the German people of the ability to think.”

“I was an accomplice in my own deception.”

“My main feeling was a sense of utter weariness. I had longed for this day, but I had not allowed myself to believe in it.”

“Temporarily, I became Hitler’s substitute.”

“In the 20 years of my sentence, I was able to think it over and to see my own fault.”

“He would have been so happy if I had been a mediocre architect.”

“The catastrophe of 1945 is a world-historical watershed.”