, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Let me explain.  This article is intended as a place for people to start their readings on Speer, like any Wikipedia article, it does not pretend to be the be all and end all.  I would have no objection to using one or more of the readings you mention for external links.  This article cannot be a place to debate Speer back and forth, to say he was lying about this or not lying about the other thing, that would take far more than the 60K or so that an article should not exceed.  I've looked at the German article; they've tsken rather a different route, which is their privilege.  Notably, it is not a FA on the German Wikipedia, or, by my poor reading of German, even close (they've plainly borrowed from this article, by the way).  We set forth Speer's life in a comprehensive and engaging fashion, draw no conclusions, leave the reader to make up his mind and show him a few resources where he can go if he wants to learn  more beyond the summary style we are forced to use.  To get into "well, this historian says one thing, another says something else" would diminish this article, not add to it.  As for Schmidt, I don't want to overuse him, for facts I'd rather use more current Speer bios, for discussion of what he says about Speer and the Jews, it is better to go to a third party.  22:54