Speer was lying. He attended Himmler’a Posen speech in October 1943. He knew all about it. I don’t think he should have hanged for it. 20 years in prison was about right.
I don’t think he [Speer, Sr.] should have hanged for it. 20 years in prison was about right.
Well, a person gets 20 years for killing one person. Speer’s crimes were much greater than that. But he didn’t actually order anyone’s death. So I would have given him life, without the possibility of parole.
As an aside, it was a travesty that the sentences of so many Nazis were reduced. That didn’t happen to Speer. But it did happen to Walther Funk, Joachim Peiper, etc., etc. Those bastards should have been made to serve every second of their original sentence.