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starring

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Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of ...

and

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. It mixes historical film material with reconstructions, as well as interviews with three of Speer's children, Albert Speer Jr., Arnold Speer and Hilde Schramm. The appended documentary confronts several interviewees including Wolf Jobst Siedler,

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and Speer relatives with evidence that Speer knew in detail that some

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functioned as killing factories, something he consistently maintained he could have found out but never actually knew.

Structure

* Part 1:

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– The Delusion * Part 2:

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– The

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* Part 3:

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– The Punishment * Documentary

Cast

The following list gives the name of each actor followed by the real historical figure played. It does not include the many people interviewed as themselves.

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