Chronicle of the Spear Services
The chronicle of the Speer offices has been compiled since 1941 by Rudolf Wolters, among others, of the processes in the offices of the General Building Inspector for the Reich capital and the Ministry of Armaments, which are under Albert Speer's responsibility .
The way of the chronicle was researched by the historian Matthias Schmidt . The uncleaned version (Coesfelder version) documents u. a. Speer's participation in the so-called renting of Jews in Berlin. In 1980, Wolters pointed out to the young historian Schmidt original documents and forgeries by Speer. Speer himself had pointed out Wolters to Schmidt.
Speer had sent a version cleaned by Wolters in 1964 to the Federal Archives in Koblenz in 1969 , although he knew that the British author David Irving had a copy.
A Dr. Have had Lotz. Material from the chronicle was also available in extracts from a Dr. Goerner present. This employee had reformulated the monthly version of the chronicle for September 1943 from memory because the office building of the ministry at Viktoriastraße 11 in Berlin was destroyed by a bombing on November 22, 1943.
Movie
- Heinrich Breloer: Speer and he: Nachspiel - The Deception, Germany 2005, 90 min., Documentation.
literature
- Susanne Willems: The evacuated Jew. Albert Speer's housing market policy for the Berlin capital construction. Ed. Hentrich, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89468-259-0 ( Publications of the Memorial and Educational Center Haus der Wannsee Conference 10), (Also: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 1999: Urban Modernization, Housing Market and Persecution of Jews in Berlin 1938 to 1943. ).
- Matthias Schmidt : Albert Speer. The end of a myth. Speer's true role in the Third Reich. Scherz, Munich et al. 1982, ISBN 3-502-16668-4 (WDR: Excerpts from this book: [1] ).
- Gregor Janssen (2005). A master of omissions. Albert Speer organizes his image in history - experiences with a research subject. In: Heinrich Breloer: Speer and he. Documentary. [2] : I was told that my dissertation was to be "checked at the highest level", that is, in Speer's Spandau cell, and that my doctorate would have the prospect of support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The documents that Wolters had - primarily the "Chronicle of the Speer Service Offices" - should be left to Professor Hubatsch and me in Coesfeld for inspection. Before doing so, however, one must consider to what extent the persons mentioned there could possibly be harmed by a publication. It can be assumed that these considerations resulted in Wolters' “cleansing” of the Speer Chronicle, especially those text passages in which the General Building Inspector's evacuation campaigns against the Berlin Jews are mentioned; In any case, Wolters gives precisely this employee protection motive when he later justifies his forgery campaign from that year 1964 to Speer. Professor Hubatsch promised the Speer representatives the utmost confidentiality. If necessary, he should be entrusted with the review of Speer's memoirs and their classification in the overall historical context, while my task should be to present the “factual part of Speer's performance”.