The Long Green Nazi Shadow over Albert Speer Jr.

By Mark Musser

Understandably, Albert Speer Jr. has spent much of his life trying to escape the long shadow of his father, Albert Speer, the Third Reich’s architect during the 1930s who later was baptized as Hitler’s Armaments and War Production Minister during the heights of World War II. Albert Speer Sr. died in 1981. After serving 20 years in Spandau Prison, Speer made millions off of his best-selling books that described his life deep inside the Third Reich. In 1984, Albert Speer Jr. began a very successful architect company in Frankfurt, Germany called AS and P, or Albert Speer and Partners.

Today, AS and P is a very profitable high end international architectural company that has building projects in Germany, the Middle East, and in China. Much of Speer Jr.’s earlier financial success in the 1970s took place in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan. Speer Jr. loves the Middle East and Arab culture. He is currently working in Qatar. Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup because of Speer Jr.’s audacious plans to design a carbon neutral sustainable arrangement of soccer stadiums.....In the 1930s, National Socialism spawned the ecological cult of sustainable development......Albert Speer Jr. knows the true origins of sustainable development. Yet, environmentalism and sustainability under the Third Reich is an area in which proverbial "good" Nazi attitudes could be entertained and maintained even though it is largely a taboo subject to the post-modern Western public that has adopted a green conscience as its new form of ethics. As such, while Nazi racism was evil, Nazi environmentalism was good. This too was learned from Albert Speer Sr......

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My Take - Nazi bad - environmentalism good.  Ben Franklin once noted the nice thing about being a rational creature was we can rationalize so easily.  Modern environmentalism is a virtual mirror image of the Nazi structure that was imposed on Germany, and all areas they conquered.  The goals are the same, and the end goal is the same.....the worship of nature over God to mankind's detriment.  Let's get this once and for all.  To be green is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective.