At the Nuremberg Trial and through his bestselling books, Albert Speer, Hitler s architect and minister, could successfully project an image of himself as the -gentleman Nazi-. Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, this book looks at those aspects of his career that Speer retrospectively manipulated (e.g. his resistance to Hitler s Nero order), to construct this image. The evolution of the -Speer myth-, analysed here, shows how West Germany s politics influenced Speer s narrative, as well as the impact that his image had on Federal Republic s efforts to cope with its past. This book...