World History

He was a genius at organization and disorganization. He decentralized much of the key production keeping Germany's production climbing up until the last months of the war.

Old Albert tried to may hay from claiming, in a fit of conscience, that he tried to kill Hitler (long after the war was irretrievably lost) but, he didn't quite get around to it. If I remember correctly, he couldn't quite reach the air intake into the bunker where he was going to gas everyone down there. The man who built the Chancellery couldn't find a ladder, I guess. Speer was no good Nazi. He ended up being a good publicist and he wrote himself into being a hero. He should have hung with the rest of the high ranking Nazi leadership for his crimes against humanity.

I will give him some credit for refusing to carry out Hitler's Gotterdammerung orders to destroy all of the remaining German infrastructure, but it was not enough to let him get away with just 20 years in Spandau Prison.