Albert Speer Quotes

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.

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.

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.