Last words by Albert Speer at the Nuremberg Trials, 1946 (with subtitles)

On 31 August 1946, the 260th day of trial, all defendants were allowed to hold a brief conclusion, that had not to be submitted to the court before.
"Mr. President, Members of the Court! Hitler and the collapse of his regime have brought an incredible time of suffering on the German people. The useless continuation of the war and the unnecessary destruction make the reconstruction to be a very hard task. Privation and misery have come over the German people.
It will, after this process, deprise and condemn Hitler as the proven author of its misfortune.
But the world will learn from the Happened not only to hate the dictatorship as form of government but also to fear it.
[...]
What means my own destiny, after all what happened and in regards of such a high purpose? The German people did in earlier centuries contributed much to the development of human culture. It often has brought these contributions in times where it was just as powerless and helpless as it is today. Valuable people don't let themselves being driven to despair. [...]
But a people that believes in its future will not be lost. God saves Germany and the western culture!"
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[@worldwarfootage]

For all those who are complaining that they see no subtitles: Activate the cc-button in the player bar of the KZbin player.

[@scottcooneymusic6736]

He was a smart man. but he knew exactly what was going on and he could have jumped ship a lot earlier and done the right thing but he didn't. He remained until the end.

[@worldwarfootage]

+SerenityNow Well said.

[@Balnazzardi]

+SerenityNow no question that he was loyal to Hitler until almost to the very end...the one thing he refused to do was to destroy what remained of Germany's infrastructure to further add suffering to civilian population. But atleast he was one of the few who showed any kind of regret (how honest that regret was its up to you to judge), while most Nazi leaders either didnt show any kind of regret, or denied their responsibility, saying that they were just following orders.

[@michaelterry1000]

+SerenityNow Rudolf Hess jumped ship in May 1941. That was before the invasion of Russia and before the Holocaust had really taken off. Hess was imprisoned for the rest of his life and Spear only got 20 years. I always thought made a bad precedent. You want to encourage the officials in a dictatorship to “jump ship”. Imprisonment for life does not.

[@michaelterry1000]

ariean rachmat It just didn't make sense to me that Hess was imprisoned for his entire life and others (who I thought did much worse) got off lighter

[@michaelterry1000]

ariean rachmat Yes, Hess sort of drew the short straw.

[@Sheehan1]

Typically brilliant Speer, trying to split the English, French and American judges from their Soviet colleagues ;)

[@ingaheligakor8560]

Not even needed since there was a natural split.

[@ishy8723]

I’m confused

[@blindingshadow3463]

It's was no secret they were already enemies, notice how you bunched the western powers and said colleagues? They were enemies from the start not colleagues, like Microsoft bailing out Apple to keep the tech war alive. This shit was chess not checkers, and Germany provided the pawns.

[@SuaveSpyMojo]

And he did.

[@Emily-5124]

TNO reference

[@francescoromano9082]

At a certain point you can see how everyone tries not to stare at him after he stopped insulting Hitler and said actual good things in favour of the Germans

[@freckleheckler6311]

So what are you asserting?

[@duggiebader1798]

He knew exactly what was going on. Under his organisation, he managed to decentralise the huge centres of manufacturing over a wider area. And this was purely because of the effect of the US 8th AF and RAF Bomber Command. By doing this he increased armourments production by staggering proportions. Oh and he introduced forced slave labour to make this work. He admitted this in Gita Sereny's book "Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth". A brilliant read btw.

[@MarkHarrison733]

The Allies also used slave labour.

[@BRuane-pw6xq]

He esacaped the rope by a narrow margin.

[@88omair]

He shouldn't have. It's depressing that they let some people go or gave such weak sentences (5,10 years). The war was longer than some of the time served by these bastards. No justice

[@bradnotbread]

1:23 Seyss-Inquart tries to sneak a peak.

[@sugandhakohli]

Speer: The Nazi who said Sorry

[@user-vh3jd6qe7d]

That sentence saved his neck

[@marksesl]

It's ironic that he eventually died in London.

[@greycatturtle7132]

Yea

[@daisangen2559]

press the CC button on bottom right for subtitles

[@TheNavalAviator]

Ironically, the unnecessary extension of the war was his work.

[@garrybaldy327]

I grew up believing the legend of Speer being "the good Nazi''. I now know he was simply "the conniving Nazi" trying his best to avoid the noose.

[@Eric0816]

When he talked about the dangers of dictatorship as a form of government and his wish of god saving western culture the Americans, British and French knew exactly what he was trying to imply.

[@telluwide5553]

What I've never understood was how Speer and a few others got off after 20 years despite being deeply involved in the final solution and the carnage of the war, yet Hess, who flew and parachuted into Scotland in 1941, got life in Spandau.... He was far from being a Saint by any means, but still not as deeply into the most destructive years of the war and final solution as the others by its end....

[@DJ-jn3on]

Speer was really cunning. He used every trick in the book, just like Hess to escape the death penalty and he succeeded. In reality, Speer was just as bad as the rest of them. He was responsible for so much human suffering.

[@toxicgoat341]

Hess wasn't gonna get it in the first place he tried to end the war and realistically there was no blood on his hands speer idk how the fuck he escaped

[@cocogoatmilkersssss]

@@toxicgoat341 Speer didn’t show any sympathy for the regime at the trial, and didn’t say “Heil Hitler” like Streicher did at every chance he got.

[@j.j.4150]

He got 20 years in prison, which is pretty good, compared to what the others got lol.

[@rednoob8954]

Well he didn't got executed

[@massimiliano4876]

An example of modern politicians , full of fear !

[@ANURAGPARIHARVLOGS]

A true cunning man..who changed his colors as per the circumstances.

[@Tje760]

A war criminal who escaped justice by using carefully crafted words. So cunning and adaptable. His approach was completely different compared to other defendants. His pretentious remorse fooled many.

[@cripplehawk]

Albert Speer in a nutshell "Sorry I was involved in the Final Solution. It won't happen again bye bye!"

[@gaganpolai5453]

subtitles ?????

[@Emmadril]

Is this when he took the Dr.s tranquilizer per his memoir?

[@Sheehan1]

He's cannily playing the Westmaechter against the Stalinists

[@deanseawa]

The subtitles don't appear to have been written by a native English speaker. They're difficult to follow but still helpful.

[@ChatGPt2001]

Albert Speer, who was Adolf Hitler's chief architect and later Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, which took place from 1945 to 1946. The trials were held to prosecute prominent members of the Nazi regime for their involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. It is worth noting that he acknowledged his knowledge of the Nazi regime's crimes and expressed remorse for his role in it. Speer sought to distance himself from the most heinous acts committed by the Nazis and portrayed himself as someone who was unaware of the extent of the Holocaust and other atrocities. However, his claims of ignorance have been widely debated by historians.

[@user-tm7ei9qv3m]

That face of soldat at the left of Speer.

[@esothetics]

an opportunist. through and through.

[@erikpalacios4279]

I would be too in his shoes

[@Scottrchrdsn]

His conviction and subsequent imprisonment were controversial, even among the Allies.

[@kicksomeup6998]

Of course, how could a fellow white non-Jew who helped mastermind one of the most apalling crimes against humanity be hanged! Surely he must have been misled and deserved rehabilitation.

[@mountainguyed67]

Subtitles aren't the best.

[@shawnofdanaukota3843]

Is there any Japanese during Post War Japan condemns and denounces Imperial Japan’s crimes and actions? Did Hirohito denounce his War Ministers?

[@Shogun507]

As far as I know, the blame was solely placed on Tojo and the Royal family was absolved of any crimes committed. I don't know enough about the immediate impact after the surrender to know if Hirohito condemned Tojo or not.

[@davemarine01]

Ive been to his atelier and house on the obersalzburg, the current owners have signposted it a private road and are a bit over history buffs snooping around, i wasnt going to travel around the world to see hitlers Bergof site and not speers but! what an extraordinary life he found himself quite inadvertantly in

[@slyasleep]

„inadvertently“.

[@odysseusrex5908]

This does not have subtitles, and my German is far too rusty to understand what he is saying.

[@kettlehat376]

Bro switched teams when things got rough

[@opencurtin]

Speer was totally dazzled by Hitler and became almost hypnotized by him .

[@barfuss2007]

I think Speer was dazzeld abot being the first architect of the 3rd Reich, not about Hitler

[@whynotstayhonest4706]

No. Not true. How do you want to know that? He simply was an opportunistic architect/businessman who had to go with the flow of the government in order to become successful as an architect. And most likely simply tried to please Hitler because of that - so he can stay as the leading architect amd fullfill his architectoral dreams. I don't think he was in favour of Hitlers ideology because of politics. But simply because it benefited him. Its no different nowadays, nor in any other regime at that time or prior to it.

[@whynotstayhonest4706]

For architects its no different I mean. It has and will always be the same. They're always going to try to please their customers/investors and at best they will seduce their feelings in order to build a good relationship and manipulate their investors who may have ideas that oppose the architectoral dreams of the architect.

[@getimpaled3460]

@@whynotstayhonest4706 But then why did he accept his job as reichsminister of armaments and production of he just wanted to be an architecht. He knew that Hitler admired him and wouldn't remove him as his personal architecht. Accepting that promotion was a dumb thing for an opportunist to do because if he was smart (which we know he was) it was probably already obvious to him that he would be sentences after the war. So why would he accept the promotion which didn't even make much sense for his career, since it had no real similarities with architechture. He was a dedicated Nazi, he used, among other things, slave labour as a mean to increase production in Germany. What he said in this video was either not his true opinion on Hitler, or an opinion that he formed either after the war, or when the war has already turned hopeless in 1944/45. He said all this as an attmept to persuade the judges and show them that he wasn't actually a Nazi, so that he gets an easier punishment.

[@TheKingOf2024]

"Gott schütze Deutschland und die abendländische Kultur!" ❤

[@raymondhouppermans8485]

1:24 his hands are shaking (was he quilty?)

[@scrimherolex1496]

Raymond Houppermans his life was on the line I would be scared too

[@thomasmannia]

I mean, yeah, I have heard that sewing too much can hurt your hands. I guess he was pretty quilty.

[@marialuciaz8018]

Psychos will be psychos.

[@jmKelley09]

Need English subtitles!

[@Martina-Kosicanka]

It sounds terrible, but I have more respect to Höss, who confessed his deeds and took responsibility (even though he claimed to be sure to very end, that he had been right) , than to this lier crying crocodile tears in order to save his ass.

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

He's not even crying lmao.

[@GEOTHERMALHEAT0]

He was polite but never submissive in the trials

[@andyx2299]

GOTT MIT UNS

[@alhara4843]

For the soldiers who were faithful till death in battle, such comments are a treasonous disgrace, he had plenty of time to jump off the boat and didn’t, he enjoyed the ride, the honorable thing to do was to commit suicide.

[@ortegaperu8510]

Gott schütze Deutschland und die abendländische Kultur !

[@BenAroundo]

subtitles?

[@worldwarfootage]

To see the subtitles you can click on the wheel in the player bar or on the rectangle on its left.

[@draganbanic8108]

Look at his upper head,thats one massive brain!

[@user-vy4uu1rz5v]

Speer was a clever man who misled the judges.he died piecefully at the age of 76.

[@doneklolek9963]

He was the boy

[@luismantegas7733]

tao tradução assim nao

[@myname7056]

Self-preservation.

[@ichtragemantel8376]

I am from Nuremberg

[@rudysalas2329]

Lucky guy 🤬

[@1SuckMeBeautiful1]

He knew what was going on, but what was he to do, he was surrounded by psychopaths and people supporting them, he would have been scared to try and leave.

[@paintdoctor5532]

I cant understand a word hes saying

[@toxicgoat341]

Speer was one lucky man don't know how he didn't get his neck snapped and he didn't even get life

[@carlosguilherme2958]

Autores de muito sofrimento pena de morte foi pouco pelo que causaram até hoje não entendo como o ser humano pode ser tão desprezível será que não sabiam o que era família?

[@sholoy480]

You can see how much remorse he feels about the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Germans. Somehow Germans became the victims and there is no mention of the actual victims.

[@algerianprophet9654]

Just like now a days. People are just cowards and are so annoyingly stupid!

[@edsonromeu1408]

Arquiteto Brilhante! Gestor industrial: Genial!

[@jeffallcock4561]

Where's the translation?

[@worldwarfootage]

To see the subtitles you can click on the wheel or on the rectangle on its left.

[@gabrielareyesvilla7409]

0:11-

[@larry1824]

I'm.only sorry my buildings weren't bombproof!!!!!!

[@rossydee]

Is that last sentence not some what relevant to today ? Western culture

[@mariebillet2323]

Speer, le plus intelligent de la bande, était aussi le roi des faux culs. Ca a payé!

[@misterm7225]

Gott schütze Deutschland und die abendländische Kultur.

[@darcycampbell2000]

As they say. Tchuss.

[@irishcoffee-pr7gf]

Er hat deutsches Volk gesagt, solch ein Nazi xD

[@schiefeebene3215]

Heuchler.

[@5inthehole]

Vat iz we sayink

[@user-db3ii4zk4r]

Black comedy. The judges all died within 20 years

[@Junk65]

Shitler’s conspirators.

[@exdemocrat9038]

Nuremberg 2.0 trials are coming to the United States for everyone in the DC Cartel!

[@ginoturrella9985]

It is a mystery why they gave Albert Speer 20 years in prison. This man was Hitler's architect. All architects do is create physical structure. In his case buildings Street etc that expressed the political motives of Adolf Hitler. Albert Speer did not participate in the Holocaust. He was quite distanced from it. The only conclusion that can be made is extraordinary times sometimes create extraordinary outcomes.

[@thomasmannia]

Lmao, no. He was Armaments Minister and used slave labor.

[@Rrrr-pr9qr]

he was Minister of Armaments after Fritz Todt died. Speer claimed that he didn't know anything about Holocaust but he was apparently there on the Posen Speech. He was given 20 years of sentence mostly for slave labor which is probably part of "crimes againt humanity".

[@dimmykarras9287]

Speer wasn't only an architect. He was the minister of war production who is responsible for use of slave labor. He is responsible for thousands of lives because his allegations on the upcoming "armaments miracle" kept the country in the war.

[@MrRONITDAS]

It was scripted.. he was reading a script!

[@BboyMikazz]

Ronit Das A Script he wrote. Thats pretty normal