"In Marcel Ophüls Aufarbeitung der Nürnberger Prozesse The Memory of Justice (1976) findet sich eine Aussage Speers zu seinem Bild von „den Deutschen“: „Man darf in diesem Zusammenhang überhaupt nicht das Wort ‚Die Deutschen‘ nennen. Das war schon der Trugschluss nach 1918. Denn die Deutschen sind ja auch die Kinder und die alten Leute, sind Frauen und sind also Menschen, die ihrer Intelligenz nach in keiner Weise geeignet sind, irgendeine Verantwortung zu tragen. Und wenn man sagt: ‚Die Deutschen‘, dann sind die dabei.“ The Memory of Justice (1976) bei imdb."
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Albert Speer
1905 – 1981
deutscher Architekt und Politiker (NSDAP)
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