A psychological portrait of Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production. Speer oversaw operations in the munitions factories in which tens of thousands of slave laborers died. During the Nuremberg trials, Speer pleaded ignorance to the Holocaust and evaded capital punishment. In this work, the author investigates Speer's troubled childhood and speculates that a lack of love drove him to become a Nazi. Furthermore, she asserts that before Speer died in 1981, he had accepted responsibility for his participation in the Final Solution.