Albert Speer Quotes

"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."
-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."
-Albert Speer

"All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected."
-Albert Speer

"I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany."
-Albert Speer

"It is clear that a worker who has not enough food cannot achieve a good work output. I already said yesterday that every head of a plant, and I too at the top, was naturally interested in having well-fed and satisfied workers, because badly fed, dissatisfied workers make more mistakes and produce poor results."
-Albert Speer

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

"No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order."
-Albert Speer

"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."
-Albert Speer