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Speer Calls Final Months of Fighting Senseless

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1946

Albert Speer20 June 1946

Nuremberg · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Speer told the Tribunal that the sacrifices made after January 1945 were senseless and argued that continued fighting only increased deaths and destruction after defeat had become inevitable.

Names involved

Albert Speer

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