text: has anyone here ever done a report on albert speer he was in the holocaust help if you can!? he was in the holocaust and was a close friend to hitler. albert speer, the son of an architect, was born in mannheim on 19th march, 1905. after studying architecture at the munich institute of technology and at the berlin-charlottenburg institute, he became an architect in 1927.   albert speer is said to have prolonged the war for at least a year, with the consequent death of hundreds of thousands and widespread ruin. it also gave the nazis more time to pursue their mass murder of jews, russians, gypsies and others deemed not fit to live. here are some wonderful sites from where you can get all the information you want about speer. http://www.dataphone.se/~ms/speer/welcom.htm http://www.auschwitz.dk/speer.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/gerspeer.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/features/hitlers-helpers.shtml