Posted on 09/17/2017 3:03:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One of Germany's most prominent architects and urban planners of the post-war period, Albert Speer Jr., has died aged 83, local media reported on 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 reported.
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.
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RIP.
My mother broke her hip after a fall at age 94. Full replacement. Didnt faze her. Lived to 100.
Defiantly. Speer was the most educated and most perceptive of all the Nazi criminals in the Nuremberg dock. He saw the only way to garner any mercy was to play the guilty but with an explanation and add a touch of remorse.
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