You Are the FüHrer’s Unrequited Love

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1969: Albert Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister for Armaments, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, from his involvement in Nazi rallies to the fall of the Third Reich, he becomes ‘the good Nazi’, the poster child of German guilt. Claiming to have known nothing about the Final Solution despite his proximity to the Führer, he declares himself ‘collectively responsible, but not individually guilty’. How do you write about a man who made fiction more seductive than truth? Retracing Speer’s life, from his early years as a Nazi to the height of his power, to his post-war rebranding as a best-selling author, and artfully questioning the truthfulness of his stories, Jean-Noël Orengo offers a dizzying portrait of the man who was once described as the Führer’s unrequited love.

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Description

An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer

‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’

This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker.

In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, claiming to have known nothing about the Final Solution, he declares himself ‘collectively responsible, but not individually guilty’.

It is one of the greatest lies in history.

Jean-Noël Orengo’s electrifying novel is the story of a man who saved his skin through the countless fictions he created about himself. A man with a talent for survival, who dazzled those around him with his monuments to power and then, escaping death, reinvented himself as a bestselling author. A man once described as the Führer’s unrequited love.

It is a story of power and ambition, self-interest and self-deceit – and what happens in a war over the truth.

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Weight 300 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 × 2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

272

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

843.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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