The Architect Of The Reich | Michael J. Lewis | New Criterion | 1st March 2016

Albert Speer, a “thirty-year-old prodigy with a movie-star face”, was the first architect ever to appear on television, when Nazi Germany launched TV broadcasting for the Nuremberg rally in 1935. A decade later in the same city Speer gave the “performance of his life”, feigning naivety and escaping the gallows. But in truth he was as bad as the rest of them, and he wasn’t even much of an architect. His best ideas he got from Hitler