Comments by "Cary Black" (@caryblack5985) on "Albert Speer - The Führer's Architect Documentary" video.

  1.  @algini12  He knew the conditions. People were starved and worked to death and he helped to set up these conditions.
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  2.  @algini12  They were systematically starved and worked to death. When they died they were replaced with other concentration camp slaves. They did not care if they died there were others to take their place. And many died because he used the SS for guards who could care less if prisoners perished through their brutality.
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  3.  @michaell2254  He may have shown some remorse but in his memoirs he did deny and minimize what he knew and tried to make himself look less knowledgeable regarding he Holocaust. He also used slaves that were starved and worked to death. A lot of what he wrote was tp try to make himself less complicit with the atrocities.
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  4.  @noldo3837  It is not about a political statement but about a armaments minister who used slaves who were starved and worked to death. Speer maintained at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs that he had no direct knowledge of the Holocaust. He admitted only to being uncomfortable around Jews in the published version of the Spandau Diaries.[50] More broadly, Speer accepted responsibility for the Nazi regime's actions. Historian Martin Kitchen states that Speer was actually "fully aware of what had happened to the Jews" and was "intimately involved in the 'Final Solution'".[168] Brechtken said Speer only admitted to a generalized responsibility for the Holocaust to hide his direct and actual responsibility.[154] Speer was photographed with slave laborers at Mauthausen concentration camp during a visit on 31 March 1943; he also visited Gusen concentration camp. Although survivor Francisco Boix testified at the Nuremberg trials about Speer's visit,[169] Taylor writes that, had the photo been available, he would have been hanged.[170] In 2005, The Daily Telegraph reported that documents had surfaced indicating that Speer had approved the allocation of materials for the expansion of Auschwitz concentration camp after two of his assistants inspected the facility on a day when almost a thousand Jews were massacred.[171] Heinrich Breloer, discussing the construction of Auschwitz, said Speer was not just a cog in the work—he was the "terror itself".[171] Speer did not deny being present at the Posen speeches to Nazi leaders at a conference in Posen (Poznań) on 6 October 1943, but claimed to have left the auditorium before Himmler said during his speech: "The grave decision had to be taken to cause this people to vanish from the earth",[172] and later, "The Jews must be exterminated".[173] Speer is mentioned several times in the speech, and Himmler addresses him directly.[173] In 2007, The Guardian reported that a letter from Speer dated 23 December 1971, had been found in a collection of his correspondence with Hélène Jeanty, the widow of a Belgian resistance fighter. In the letter, Speer says, "There is no doubt—I was present as Himmler announced on October 6, 1943, that all Jews would be killed."[117]
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  5. You are mistaken. He knew and used slave labor and knew about mass murder.
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  6. Whataboutism. Just justify atrocities
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  7. Down with the Nazis
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  8. He used slave labor and knew about the concentration camps
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  9. I never usedd slave labor and saw people starved and worked to death.
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  10. ​ @danilo16410  BS. First I did not lie maybe you did. Speer allowed the SS to do as they wanted regarding the prisoners including severe corporal punishment , death by execution starvation and working them ty woo death. There were slaves to take their places. You are totally ignorant of went went on. Start reading start with Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany Edward Honze and then we can talk.
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