The Myth of Albert Speer

Albert Speer was the only Nazi in a leading position to accept responsibility for the crimes of the 3rd Reich and was convicted to a 20-year prison sentence at the Nuremberg Trials. This kindly old gentleman liked to appear in interviews and published a bestseller memoir. The 1st in a series of films entitled "Faces of the 3rd Reich", this documentary tries to answer the question whether Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments and war production was actually feeling a true sense of guilt or only acted as if he did in order to cover his own complicity. Producer Michael Kloft managed to convince Speer's son to participate in this production. Albert Speer jr., also an architect, speaks here about his relationship with his father and his vast shadow. Using partly unpublished film footage, photographs and documents, The Myth of Albert Speer creates a portrait of one of the most controversial personalities in Nazi German history.