How albert speer escaped justice at nuremberg

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This research plan outlines my focus for my dissertation and what i wanted to write about in each chapter. For my dissertation I decided to focus on Albert Speer and how he escaped justice at the Nuremberg trials. You can also find a bibliography attached.

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[...] Speer, A., Saukel, F. and Lammers, H Memorandum to Hitler concerning the conscription of foreign workers; counter-memorandum; minutes of a Reich Chancellery conference on the same subject. [Memorandum Minutes] Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project, Prosecution 48a. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Speer, A. Interrogation concerning the work of the Central Planning Board, including the Jaegerstab program, and the use of forced labour. Transcript, Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project, Prosecution 68. Cambridge, Massachusetts Transcript for NMT Milch Case Court Transcript, Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts. [...]

[...] I will be comparing these defendants in particular as they worked within armaments during the Second World War. Overall, they were trialled under the same counts but received very different outcomes in the end. Furthermore, I will be thoroughly analysing the Yale Law School The Yale Law School Archive provides a range of sources such as memorandums of meetings, which link Albert Speer directly to the expansion of death camps such as Auschwitz - Birkenau. Bibliography Primary Sources Archive material Concentration camps in Norway; Spanish photographer imprisoned in Mauthausen testifies re. [...]

[...] and Thorndike, A The Archives Testify No Film Socialism on Film, The Second World War & the Rise of Fascism. German Democratic Republic. Journal articles Brown, A How reliable and useful are Albert Speer's memoirs as a guide to the inner workings of teh Nazi dictatorship. Cambridge Polity Press. Bar- On, T Review of Joachim Fest, Albert Speer; conversations with Hitler's Architect. Cambridge Polity Press Forsgren, R The Architecture of Evil. The New Atlantis A journal of technology and society, pp.45-62. Homze, E The Saukel-Speer Controversy. Princeton University Press. [...]

[...] My primary focus for this research project is how did Albert Speer escape justice at the Nuremburg trials in comparison to his fellow Nazis. Within this topic, I will be focusing on a number of key areas such as the prosecution's case against Speer, his defence case by Hans Flaschner, Speer's defence strategy and finally I will be comparing Speer's trial to Sauckel in order to understand how Speer escaped justice from Nuremberg when Sauckel did not. During his trial, the prosecution failed to question Speer's knowledge of the implementation of the final solution in the extermination camps. [...]

[...] Mountain View, California: Ishi Press, 2010.Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich, 1st ed, New York: Macmillan, 1970.Speer, Albert and Neugroschel, Joachim, The slave state Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy, 1st Ed, Great Britain: Macmillan Publishing Co.Inc, 1991.Sereny, Gitta, Albert Speer; His battle with the truth, 1st ed, London: Picador; New edition Stackelberg, The Routledge companion to Nazi Germany. 4th Ed. New York: Routledge Shirer, The rise and fall of the Third Reich. New York: RosettaBooks Williams, A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II. 5th ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 2016.Van der Vat, Dan, The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer, 1st ed, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Websites Jewishvirtuallibrary.org Nuremberg Trial Proceedings - Indictment: Count One. [...]