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Oct 3, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
I've said it before but I think in the coming years Albert Speer is someone who will be more relevant than he's been in a long time. The Gitta Sereny book.
If you don't know, Gitta Sereny came to know Speer after his release. She liked him. Because of this she, through a series of interviews and research, proceeded to destroy beyond a shadow of a doubt all his claims of innocence.
Her book seeks to understand how a man can become "not just amoral, but morally extinguished."
The only remaining Speer building in Berlin is a public toilet.

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This damn fool Johnson has a chance.
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