Article

2023-07-26 Science & Technology

Albert Speer's Warning to the West About The Rise of Technocracy

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-26 03:16|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 ...Be careful here. Albert Speer was not the polite and contrite technocrat seduced by Nazi rhetoric that he tried (and succeeded in) portraying.

He knew. He facilitated the use of slave labor in armament factories, and kept the war going months longer than it otherwise would have.

He had the smarts to figure out very early on at Nuremburg that if he showed remorse he was going to stay alive, and he was right - none of the other defendants (with a couple of very qualified exceptions) even tried, and most defended what they did. Speer went to jail for twenty years, almost everyone else went to the gallows.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-07-26 05:16|| 2023-07-26 05:16|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ He was no less diabolical than his peers.

As was mentioned by the author. Not mentioned was his early sketches of the 'Stone of Hope.'

[partial satire]

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-26 05:51|| 2023-07-26 05:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Some say Speer was actually expecting the gallows and was even disappointed that he didn't.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-26 06:24|| 2023-07-26 06:24|| Front Page Top

23:54 trailing wife
23:26 Squinty Crusonter4971
23:15 Squinty Crusonter4971
23:01 Squinty Crusonter4971
22:43 Super Hose
22:42 Super Hose
22:35 trailing wife
22:32 trailing wife
22:31 Jeremiah Jomosing7109
22:29 Clyde Spique4897
22:01 Clyde Spique4897
21:55 Clyde Spique4897
21:52 Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031
21:42 magpie
21:00 Abu Uluque
19:36 jpal
19:22 Super Hose
19:01 M. Murcek
19:00 49 Pan
18:57 49 Pan
18:57 Skidmark
18:49 Skidmark
18:36 Frank G
18:35 trailing wife