Article: Becoming a different man: inside Albert Speer. (Nazi Party member)

ALBERT SPEER, the Nazi architect and minister of armaments, was sentenced at Nuremberg to 20 years in Spandau prison. At the end of a worship service in Spandau, Speer asked to speak with chaplain Georges Casalis. Before Speer could speak Casalis told Speer he considered him more blameworthy than any of the other Nazi prisoners, both because of Speer's intelligence and because he had been more responsible for extending the war than perhaps anyone but Hitler. Speer thanked Casalis for his honesty, then explained his reason for wanting to speak with him: "I've been sentenced to 20 years, and I consider it just. I want to use this time that has, in a manner of speaking, been ...

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