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Albert Speer: Was He Tunnel-Visioned on His Own Task?
I want to revisit Albert Speer, actually. Obviously, he was tried at Nuremberg and he was one of the few that weren't executed. And that was partly because he accepted responsibility for his role. After when he was imprisoned, there was this long process of him maybe coming to terms with it a bit more about what he actually was responsible for. I think the view now is very clear that Speer knew vastly more than he said at the time and immediately after the war.
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