Assessing Albert Speer

Year 12 Modern History

The focus of the question – Speer as a winner?

• Was Albert Speer a ‘winner’ of History?Yes No

The focus of the question - What is History ‘about’?

History is about winners

History is

about

‘what

really

happened’ (finding

out the objective

truth).

History is

about

the ‘deeds of

great

men’

History is

about

the effects of

great

forces – the economy or

politics and power

.

History is

about to

trying to

explain the past in order to

understand ourselves

and our world.

Key historians and their conclusions on Speer

• Joachim Fest • Gitta Sereny

• Matthias Schmidt • Daniel Goldhagen