Albert Speer's Reason For Joining The Nazi Party
Option 21: Albert Speer 1905-1981
Principal focus: Through the study of Albert Speer, students gain an understanding of the role of this personality in a period of national or international history.
Students learnt about: 1. Historical context * Rise of the Nazi party and the personal charisma of Adolf Hitler * Development of the Nazi state after 1933 * Nazi war effort to 1945 * Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
2. Background * Family background and education * Introduction to Nazism and his reasons for joining the Nazi party
3. Rise to prominence * Early work for the Nazi party * Appointment as ‘First Architect of the Reich’ * The ‘Germania’ project and the new Reich …show more content…
Gauleiters hoarded materials and the SS empire was developed by Himmler * Speer appointed as Minister of Armaments in February 1942, improved German war production and co-ordination
Nuremberg War Crime Trials * Reason for trials: seen as important to make the Germans realise the scale of destruction that had occurred, the atrocities committed by the Germans were part of official government policy, the idea that if it was shown that this behaviour would not go unpunished then such evil would not be repeated and the hope that International Justice would be a good sign for the future of the United
Principal focus: Through the study of Albert Speer, students gain an understanding of the role of this personality in a period of national or international history.
Students learnt about: 1. Historical context * Rise of the Nazi party and the personal charisma of Adolf Hitler * Development of the Nazi state after 1933 * Nazi war effort to 1945 * Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
2. Background * Family background and education * Introduction to Nazism and his reasons for joining the Nazi party
3. Rise to prominence * Early work for the Nazi party * Appointment as ‘First Architect of the Reich’ * The ‘Germania’ project and the new Reich …show more content…
Gauleiters hoarded materials and the SS empire was developed by Himmler * Speer appointed as Minister of Armaments in February 1942, improved German war production and co-ordination
Nuremberg War Crime Trials * Reason for trials: seen as important to make the Germans realise the scale of destruction that had occurred, the atrocities committed by the Germans were part of official government policy, the idea that if it was shown that this behaviour would not go unpunished then such evil would not be repeated and the hope that International Justice would be a good sign for the future of the United