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Sunday, September 17, 2017
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Sunday, September 17, 2017
German architect Speer, son of top Nazi, dead at 83
One of Germany’s most prominent architects and urban planners of the post-war period, Albert Speer junior, died aged 83, local media reports Sunday.
His death late Friday came after an operation on a broken hip sustained in a fall at his home in the western city of Frankfurt, Bild daily reports.
Speer was widely credited with honestly reckoning with the heavy historical burden left by his father and namesake — one of Adolf Hitler’s closest confidants and the head of the vast Nazi armaments ministry.
Born in Berlin as the eldest of six children, Albert junior managed to emerge from his father’s shadow to become known for ecologically sustainable public works projects across Europe, Asia and Africa.
— AFP
Albert Speer in Marcel Ophuls’ documentary ‘The Memory of Justice.’ (Courtesy HBO)
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