"The tremendous danger, however, contained in this totalitarian system only became abundantly clear at the moment when we were approaching the end. It was then that one could see what the meaning of the principle was, namely, that every order should be carried out without any criticism. Everything . . . you have seen in the way of orders which were carried out without any consideration, did after all turn out to be mistakes . . . This system let me put it like this to the end of the system it had become clear what tremendous dangers are contained in any such system, as such quite apart from Hitler's principle. The combination of Hitler and this system, then, brought about this tremendous catastrophe to this world."
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As quoted by chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson in the closing summation of the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials (26 July 1946)
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Albert Speer
1905 – 1981
deutscher Architekt und Politiker (NSDAP)
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