Speer & Hitler: The Devil's Architect

This three-part docudrama lifts the veil of myths and half-truths surrounding a central figure of the Nazi dictatorship: Albert Speer. Speer was a man of many faces: a cultivated intellectual who dedicated himself to the most inhuman dictatorship of the 20th century; an erudite humanist who controlled Germany's arms industry and did not shy away from slave labor to increase productivity; a grandiose architect willing to erect the gigantic buildings of the doomed thousand-year-old Reich. Albert Speer, Hitler's pupil, who in the end turns against his Führer and is the only leading Nazi to admit some degree of complicity in the atrocities committed by his regime at the Nuremberg trials. Filmmaker Heinrich Breloer, author and director of the Emmy award-winning mini-series "The Manns", is supported in this project by many creative minds who have already accompanied him in the production of "The Manns". Fictional scenes, re-enacted by well-known film and television stars, convey an immediate emotionality and provide a glimpse behind the autocratic staging of Hitler and his architect. For the first time in front of the camera, three of Albert Speer's children are also confronted with the overwhelming truth about their father. Revealing facts from previously unpublished material provide impressive evidence of the real background to Breloer's historical document. The first episode tells the story of the rise and fall of Hitler's favourite architect, who became his war organizer.