ABSTRACT
Speer occupied his time in prison with gardening, going for a physically real but geographically imaginary walk round the world, writing letters, keeping his secret Spandau Diaries, which were published in English in 1977, and composing his memoirs, which appeared in this country in 1970 under the tide Inside the Third Reich. The memoirs are by far the most perceptive and illuminating account we possess of the inner workings of the top Nazi
leadership written by an insider; Goebbels’s voluminous diaries may be more detailed and more immediate, but they entirely lack the reflective and descriptive qualities of Speer’s remarkable book.
