Assessing Albert Speer
Year 12 Modern History
The focus of the question – Speer as a
winner?
• Was Albert Speer a ‘winner’ of History?
Yes
No
The focus of the question - What is
History ‘about’?
History is
about winners
History is about ‘what
really happened’
(finding out the
objective truth).
History is about the
‘deeds of great men’
History is about to trying
to explain the past in
order to understand
ourselves and our world.
History is about the
effects of great forces –
the economy or politics
and power.
Key historians and their conclusions on
Speer
• Joachim Fest
• Gitta Sereny
• Matthias Schmidt
• Daniel Goldhagen