Spandau The Secret Diaries Part 1 of 2 Author:Albert Speer Part One Of Two Parts On the first day of October 1966, Albert Speer, onetime Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production and personal architect and confidant to Hitler, walked out of Spandau Prison, free for the first time since the end of WW II. Waiting for him were the more than 25,000 pages of notes and diaries he had secretly written ... more »and smuggled out of Spandau during the course of his 20-year sentence. As Speer himself said, "This [diary] stands in place of a life."« less