{"product_id":"speer-hitlers-architect-9780300190441","title":"Speer: Hitler's Architect","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new biography of Albert Speer  Hitlers chief architect and trusted confidant  reveals the subjects deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities  \"Kitchen  the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany  comprehensively disassembles Speers alibis and excuses. . . . His mastery of the revisionist evidence against Speer is complete.\"John Fund  National Review Online  \"Brilliant and devastating. . . . Kitchen lays out a case so airtight that one marvels anew how Speer survived the Nuremberg trials with his neck intact.\"Martin Filler  New York Review of Books  In his best-selling autobiography  Albert Speer  Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany  repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitlers Third Reich. In this revealing new biography  author Martin Kitchen disputes Speers lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence  portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well.  Kitchen reconstructs Speers life with what we now know  including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years  challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man  his beliefs  and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history  not only countering Speers claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647844376629,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300190441","price":20.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300190441.jpg?v=1781697871","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/speer-hitlers-architect-9780300190441","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}