Albert Speer, undisputed master of the German war machine from 1942-5., and the only defendant at Nuremberg to plead guilty, was forty when sentenced to imprisonment. He'd confessed his guilt during his trial and was to spend the next twenty years, until his release in 1966, attemptong to expiate it.
Throughout that period, and written for the most part on lavatory paper, he kept a detailed secret journal which bit by bit he was able to smuggle out.
In these secret diaries, Hitler's tame architect, whose dream was to design buildings that would suitably enshrine the Thousand Year Reich, documents his ever-deepening complicity with his fellow Nazis. He also vividly demonstrates Hitler's attractiveness to those whom the Fuhrer chose to raise to positions of prominence.