Talk:Inside the Third Reich

message: I just created this article, and would appreciate additions and subtractions. If anyone has read "Speer: His Battle With the Truth," the inclusion of that book's points would be extremely useful. --L. 15:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article creation (2005) 

message: It says "Even in 1945, when Germany's armed forces were all but destroyed, Speer could not convince Hitler to admit defeat, or even to go on the defensive", when it should say  "were nothing but destroyed"
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.179.234.132 (talk) 22:09, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it's better as "all but destroyed" than as "nothing but destroyed". However, you could just make it "almost destroyed" if you like. — Lumbercutter 02:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under "Description of the Nazi hierarchy" there is something wrong 

message: This article is probably a translation of the corresponding German article. As a matter of fact, the mistakes of the original were adopted. For example, it is untrue that Albert Speer claimed that he had tried to avoid using foreign workers. Indeed, he says explicitely that he urged the competent men in the military to send him as many workers as possible. (See the discussion page of the German article for quotes from the book.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.52.183.194 (talk) 09:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistakes 

message: "He then goes on to say that there was no way that he could have known what was happening to the Jews, even though he met with them twice a week to play poker"
What, all of them?
210.49.208.6 (talk) 11:15, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right. I think the whole poker-playing thing was nothing but vandalism. I removed it. — ¾-10 17:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incoherent use of the objective pronoun 

message: I wonder whether anyone with a copy of Inside the Reich could help with a fact tag on Alfred Cortot the tag is on a report of Cortot "befriending Hitler's friend, architect, and (after 1942) Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer". From some googling I have gathered that there might be a photo of Cortot and the Speers in Inside the Reich. So could someone please check if it is there and what can be found on Cortot's relationship with Speer from the index. Thanks.--Peter cohen (talk) 11:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not in my copy. There is one mention of Cortot in the index. The relevant passage is where Speer is talking about his imprisonment immediately after the war ended (before Nuremburg); We passed the Coq Hardi, the famous restaurant in Bougival where I had spent pleasant evenings with Cortot, Vlaminck, Despiau, and other French artists. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 21:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to someone with a copy of the book. 

message: Today's edit by an anon edit has significantly changed how we report Speer's version of how he joined the party. Could someone with a copy of the book please verify which version is correct?--Peter cohen (talk)
:Speer says that he attended a lecture by Hitler at the university Speer was teaching at in Berlin, at the encouragement of his students. He then says that he had expected the caricature of Hitler in military dress, but he had instead worn a "well-fitted blue suit" and was "looking markedly respectable". Speer then concedes that he learned with time that Hitler had a gift for modifying his behaviour to suit the audience. He was also impressed by Hitler's speech and sense of humour. 
:He then attended a speech by Goebbels a few weeks later, but was repelled by the audience's frenzied reaction. After Goebbels' speech, the crowd confronted the police, and Speer sympathised with the crowd ("opposition to authority"). He then says that he joined the NSDAP the next day. The detail of this decision is a bit vague, particularly the reasoning why he sympathised with the crowd in their confrontation with the police, particularly when you consider that he says that he was repelled by them earlier. Like much of Speer's thinking and life, contradictory. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 21:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  So how did he say he joined the party? 

message: This article states:
"He was also, even during World War II, described by both sides as one of the few highly intelligent people in the Nazi hierarchy."
What about the truth for a change?
IQ's of Nazi leaders tried for war crimes
From a letter by Grady Towers used with permission from the author.
In 1945, an army psychologist named G.M. Gilbert, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg for war crimes. Among other tests, a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue was administered. Here are the results:
1 	Hjalmar Schacht 	143
2 	Arthur Seyss-Inquart 	141
3 	Hermann Goering 	138
4 	Karl Doenitz 		138
5 	Franz von Papen 	134
6 	Eric Raeder 		134
7 	Dr. Hans Frank 		130
8 	Hans Fritsche 		130
9 	Baldur von Schirach 	130
10 	Joachim von Ribbentrop 	129
11 	Wilhelm Keitel 		129
12 	Albert Speer 		128
13 	Alfred Jodl 		127
14 	Alfred Rosenberg 	127
15 	Constantin von Neurath 	125
16 	Walther Funk 		124
17 	Wilhelm Frick 		124
18 	Rudolf Hess 		120
19 	Fritz Sauckel 		118
20 	Ernst Kaltenbrunner 	113
You may find these data in The Nuremberg Mind: The Psychology of the Nazi Leaders by Florence R. Miale and Michael Selzer, 
as well as in The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering by Leonard Mosley.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.168.243.40 (talk) 17:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intelligence 

message: There's a slight mention of this (impact) in the Adaptations §, but nothing to convey the actual significance of the work. At least copies sold/printed should be  added. Lycurgus (talk) 01:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impact/Sales 

message: Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "reduce retelling of the book." The article was basically OR based on the reading of the text itself. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:24, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edit