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Speer Describes Resistance to Scorched Earth Orders

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 testified that he opposed Hitler's scorched-earth policy because destruction of factories, utilities and transport systems would leave the German population without a viable economic base.

Names involved

Albert Speer

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