Hitler's best friend
The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages
on in a new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner.
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By Wesley Yang
http://salon.com/books/feature/2002/09/26/speer/index.html
excerpts:
"Those who serve governments that sponsor atrocity should expect a day
of reckoning.
...
"The responsibility for having been seduced into believing in and
working for such a man cannot simply be pinned on the seducer. The
seduced had choices too, choices of action and inaction, and these
choices cut to the heart of what every [citizen] must confront when
asked: What did you do during the war?"
(edited from 'German' to 'citizen' for generality of the point about
non-political architecture)
The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages
on in a new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Wesley Yang
http://salon.com/books/feature/2002/09/26/speer/index.html
excerpts:
"Those who serve governments that sponsor atrocity should expect a day
of reckoning.
...
"The responsibility for having been seduced into believing in and
working for such a man cannot simply be pinned on the seducer. The
seduced had choices too, choices of action and inaction, and these
choices cut to the heart of what every [citizen] must confront when
asked: What did you do during the war?"
(edited from 'German' to 'citizen' for generality of the point about
non-political architecture)