> The biggest conman of them all was Albert Speer. He knew everything. <
Yes, indeed. Speer was a top-level war criminal. He was also a very clever fellow. For example, at Nuremberg Speer said he planned to assassinate Hitler as the war was nearing an end. Speer’s “plan” was to introduce poison gas into the Führerbunker‘s air intake, killing everyone inside.
But the air intake was too high of the ground, said Speer. So he had to call the whole thing off.
I suppose that story gained him some sympathy with the Allied judges. But it was all a ruse. One of the other Nazi defendants later remarked that Speer was in charge of Germany’s entire industrial production. He couldn’t borrow a ladder from somewhere?
The book, “Operation Paperclip” details Speer and his postwar scam to avoid consequences and curry favor with the allies.
A low life indeed.