Extracts from a speech to provincial leaders concerning the utilization of workers and prisoners of war in the war effort

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Albert Speer (Minister for Armament and War Production)

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Albert Speer

German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany (1905-1981)

Albert Speer i 1933
  • Born: 1905-03-19 (Mannheim) (country: Germany)
  • Died: 1981-09-01 (London)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: architect; autobiographer; engineer; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (series ordinal: 474481)
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant); Milch Trial (date: 1945-10-18; role: witness)
  • Military branch: Schutzstaffel

Date: 24 February 1942

Literal Title: Translation of excerpt of Speech of Min. Speer on 24. Febr. 1942 to the Gauleiter meeting.

Defendant: Erhard Milch

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-1435

Citations: NMT 2 (page 55), NMT 2 (page 597), NMT 2 (page 1837)

HLSL Item No.: 2925

Trial Issues

Forced labor and mistreatment of workers in war economy (IMT, NMT 2) Prisoners of war, abuse, forced labor, or killing of (IMT, NMT 2, 5, 12)

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PS-1435: Secret Speech of Speer to the Gauleiters

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PS-1435: Extract from a secret speech by Speer at a meeting of Gauleiter on 24 february 1942 in Munich: employment of prisoners of war in armament industries

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PS-1435: February 24, 1942. Speech of Speer to Gauleiters.

Speech of Min. Speer on 24 Febr. 1942 to the Gauleiter meeting.
From Vol. 38—1
* * * * * * £ Gauleiter meeting 24 Febr. 194-2. Munich [Page 4]
I am grateful to fact that, also Party member Dr. Todt, in January, personally ordered the complete stoppage of work on his Reichsautobahnen as well as released all specialists and German Workers for the railroad construction in the East and his PWs for the armament industry.
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I therefore proposed to the Fuehrer at the end of December that all my labor force, including specialists, be released for mass employment in the East.
Subsequently the remaining PW's about 10,000, were put at disposal of the armaments industry by me.