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Albert Speer served faithfully as the Minister of Armaments in Adolf Hitler's Germany. The product of a upper middle-class family in Mannheim, Speer studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe. In January of 1931, Speer joined the NSDAP and helped renovate the parties headquarters.

Over the years, Hitler grew to admire Speer and share a fair amount of confidence in him as they both had similar architectural interests. He continued to gain power as he climbed the ranks and became the minister of Arms Procurement. He also helped grow and oversee the slave labor system that was used to build many of the Nazis grand projects. As time went by, Speer began to see problems with the National Socialist principles of Autarky and became a vocal proponent of limited reforms. However, he did not abandon his reliance on the slave labor system and still advocated for a one-party state under the leadership of a strong Führer. On the death of Hitler on August 23, 1940, Speer was called to a emergency meeting of the Reichstag in which votes were cast to determine who would become the next Führer of Germany. In a fiery speech, Speer appealed to the Reichstag to lock at the precarious state of affairs in Germany, and denounced Bormann for his proposed continued trade with the Soviets. Speer said instead the Reich should look to the markets of America and Britian and begin limited market reforms. His speech was met with some applause, but when Bormann took to the stage, backed by elite SS guards, it became clear who the next Führer would be. Speer and his bloc were denounced and forced to take oaths of loyalty to Bormann.

Speer died in a mysterious plane crash several days after, on his way to East Prussia.