Albert Speer

A German architect and high-ranking official in National Socialist Germany. As a close associate of Adolf Hitler, he was put in charge of the Nazi regime's monumental architectural projects and served as General Building Inspector for Berlin starting in 1937. In 1942, he became Minister of Armaments and War Production, overseeing Germany's war production. Massive numbers of forced laborers were used to expand wartime armaments production, a system in which Speer himself was deeply involved. After World War II, he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Following his release in 1966, he published memoirs and gained international renown as an insider figure of the Nazi regime. He died of a stroke in London in 1981.

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Year	Albert Speer
1905	Birth of Albert Speer (Period: March 19, 1905, Location: Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (present-day Mannheim, Germany))
1914	World War I (Age: 8 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
1923	Joining the Nazi Party (Age: 18 years old, Period: August 1923, Location: Bavaria, Germany)
1928	Marriage (Albert Speer, Margarete (Margret) Weber, Age: 23 years old, Period: August 28, 1928, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1930	Meeting and Approaching Hitler (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1930–1933, Location: Berlin, etc., Germany)
1933	Rise as a Nazi Party Architect (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1933–1937, Location: Berlin, Nuremberg, etc., Germany)
1937	Involvement in the Displacement and Resettlement Policies of Jewish Inhabitants (Albert Speer, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1937 onwards, Location: Berlin, Germany) Appointment as General Building Inspector for Berlin (Albert Speer, Age: 31 years old, Period: January 1937 – 1942, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1939	World War II (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.)
1941	Germany's War against the Soviet Union / Eastern Front (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Eastern Front and military production facilities within Germany)
1942	Involvement in the Expansion of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Age: 36 years old, Period: Around 1942–1944, Location: Auschwitz, German-occupied Poland) Expansion of German Armaments Production (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1942–1944, Location: Germany and German-occupied territories) Appointment as Minister of Armaments and War Production (Albert Speer, Age: 36 years old, Period: February 8, 1942, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1943	Involvement in the Posen Speeches (Albert Speer, Age: 38 years old, Period: October 6, 1943, Location: Posen in German-occupied Poland (now Poznań, Poland))
1944	Strengthening Fighter Aircraft Production (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1944, Location: Aircraft factories within Germany, etc.)
1945	Response to the Scorched-Earth Policy Just Before Defeat (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1945, Location: Various locations in Germany) Arrest and Transfer to the Nuremberg Trials (Age: 40 years old, Period: May 1945 – 1945, Location: Schleswig-Holstein, etc., Germany) Nuremberg Trials (Age: 40 years old, Period: November 1945 – October 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1946	Formation and Collapse of the Speer Myth (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1946–1980s onwards, Location: Germany, United Kingdom, etc.)
1947	Imprisonment in Spandau Prison (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1947–1966, Location: Spandau Prison, West Berlin)
1966	Publication of Memoirs and Postwar Writing Activities (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1966–1981, Location: West Germany, United Kingdom, etc.)
1981	Death of Albert Speer (Age: 76 years old, Period: September 1, 1981)

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