Hermann Giesler
Hermann Giesler( 2 April 1898, Siegen – 20 January 1987, Düsseldorf) was a German architect during the Nazi era, one of the two architects most favoured and rewarded by Adolf Hitler( the other being Albert Speer).
Magnus Brechtken
Magnus Brechtken( born 21 March 1964) is a German historian.
He is the deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and teaches at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
In 2017 he wrote a biographical study of Albert Speer which won the 2017.
Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny, CBE( 13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian- British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.
Born and initially raised in Austria, she was the author of five books, including" The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered"( 1972) and" Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth"( 1995).
Sereny was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her book on Albert Speer in 1995, and the Stig Dagerman Prize in 2002.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 for services to journalism.
Albert Speer
Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.
A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931.
His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle.
Hitler instructed him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg.
In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin.
In this capacity he was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes in Berlin.
In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production.
Using doctored statistics, he promoted himself as having performed an "armaments miracle" that was widely credited with keeping Germany in the war.
In 1944, Speer established a task force to increase production of fighter aircraft.
It became instrumental in the exploitation of slave labor for the benefit of the German war effort.
After the war, Speer was among the 24 "major war criminals" arrested and charged with the crimes of the Nazi regime at the Nuremberg trials.
He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, principally for the use of slave labor, narrowly avoiding a death sentence.
Having served his full term, Speer was released in 1966.
He used his writings from the time of imprisonment as the basis for two autobiographical books, "Inside the Third Reich" and .
Speer's books were a success; the public was fascinated by an inside view of the Third Reich.
Speer died of a stroke in 1981.
Little remains of his personal architectural work.
Through his autobiographies and interviews, Speer carefully constructed an image of himself as a man who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich.
He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for, the Holocaust.
This image dominated his historiography in the decades following the war, giving rise to the "Speer Myth".
The first theme of the myth posits that after his appointment as Minister of Armaments he revolutionized the German war machine.
The second theme is that he was an apolitical technocrat.
Beginning in the 1980s, the myth began to fall apart.
The armaments miracle was attributed to Nazi propaganda.
Adam Tooze wrote in "The Wages of Destruction" that the idea that Speer was an apolitical technocrat was "absurd".
Martin Kitchen, writing in , stated that Speer was intimately involved in the "Final Solution".
Hilde Schramm
Hilde Schramm( born Hilde Speer; 17 April 1936) is a German politician for Alliance'90/ The Greens(" Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen").
Internationally she is best known as the daughter of the German architect and high- ranked Nazi Party official Albert Speer( 1905 – 1981), and the younger sister of Albert Speer Jr.( 1934 – 2017).
Holly Trusted
Holly Trusted( publishing as Marjorie Trusted) is a historian of British and Spanish sculpture.
Previously Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum she is known in particular for her work on British and Spanish sculpture and was the lead curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum Cast Courts.
Since January 2019, Trusted is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Trusted was Honorary Vice- President of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2018- 19.
Matthias Schmidt
Matthias Schmidt( born 1952) is a German historian and author who first revealed in a university dissertation and then in the book," Albert Speer: The End of a Myth", the role that Albert Speer had played in the Holocaust.
Albert Speer (born 1934)
Albert Speer( 29 July 1934 – 15 September 2017) was a German architect and urban planner.
He was the son of Albert Speer( 1905 – 81), Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich during World War II.
His grandfather, Albert Friedrich Speer, was also an architect.
Albert Friedrich Speer
Albert Friedrich Speer( 6 May 1863 – 31 March 1947) was a German architect.
He was the father of the architect and Nazi Germany minister Albert Speer and the grandfather of the architect Albert Speer Jr. After studies in Berlin and Munich, he started an architecture firm in Mannheim, which he ran between 1900 and 1923.
His buildings are in the classical style and art nouveau.
Most of his works are in Mannheim and are stylistically influenced by Art Nouveau and Neoclassical architecture.
His marriage to Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine Hommel produced three sons, among them Albert Speer.
The painter Conrad Hommel was his brother- in- law, whose daughter Eva van Hoboken was his niece.
Tatiana Karelina
Tatiana Karelina( born 1980) is a Russian entrepreneur living in London, United Kingdom.
She is the founder of Tatiana Karelina, a chain of self- named salons specialising in hair extensions and is noted for introducing the Micro Ring hair extension technique into the UK.

Question: Are Tatiana Karelina and Albert Speer both from the same country?
Answer: no