Spandau The Secret Diaries 1975 by Albert Speer

Spandau The Secret Diaries 1975 by Albert Speer. Hardcover/gebunden. Published by Propyläen Verlag in Berlin in August 1975. First Edition. Without dust jacket. Signed. With 168 partly unknown picture and text documentations. In very good condition.

While the book Spandau The Secret Diaries (in German: Spandauer Tagebücher) deals with Speer's time while incarcerated at Spandau Prison, it also contains much material on his role in the Third Reich and his relationship with Adolf Hitler. Speer’s Spandau Diaries is a personal memoir of more than ordinary import and eloquence on his 20 years in prison. His is the eye of the architect for details, though the sweep of his observations may also have been sharpened by the length and conditions of his imprisonment. There is much gossip about the other six Nazi prisioners with whom he shared this large jail. It is not a systematic diary. There are gaps of weeks and sometimes months between entries (were there materials here that the editors thought we had best not see?). The whole is divided into chapters for each year he was jailed by his Anglo-​Franco-​Russo-​American enemies. During that time he calculated that he walked 20,000 miles in his pacing in the garden and exercise yard of the prison.