Quotes from Albert Speer

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.

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.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.