Best Quotes by Albert Speer (Top 8)

  1. Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.
  2. One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
  3. No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
  4. In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
  5. Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
  6. At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.
  7. It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
  8. All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.