It has been two weeks since Barack Obama's visit to Germany, France and the United Kingdom. The senator had nearly completely favorable media coverage. I wondered what those behind the scenes feel ...

Speer was born March 19, 1905, in Mannheim, Southwest Germany to a wealthy upper-middle-class family. His father, Albert Friedrich Speer, ran his own architectural firm, making the Speers one of ...

A collaboration between convicted Nazi war criminal Albert Speer and Paramount Pictures to make a studio biopic about his life fizzled 50 years ago. But revelatory audio tapes from development of that ...

while interviewing Albert Speer, the former Nazi minister of armaments, at his home in West Germany. I contacted Speer, who had recently published “Inside the Third Reich,” and he agreed to meet.

Already at Nuremberg, Speer had presented himself as a penitent prophet of a new age of technocracy. He used his closing statement in the dock to warn the world that the only forces that could ...

Adolf Hitler with the architect Albert Speer, left, and the sculptor Arno ... Her latest book is “The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through ...

Nathaniel Parker provides a fascinating portrayal of the most inscrutable Nazi on trial at Nuremberg, Hitler's architect and armaments minister, Albert Speer. Show more Nathaniel Parker provides a ...

If you thought building 12 open-air, air-conditioned stadiums was hard, try shipping them abroad when you're done. And then try to explain why one of your top architects is called Albert Speer.