Translation of Erinnerungen, originally published in Germany in 1969.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-570) and index.

Origins and youth -- Profession and vocation -- Junction -- My catalyst -- Architectural megalomania -- The greatest assignment -- Obersalzberg -- The new Chancellery -- A day in the Chancellery -- Our empire style -- The Globe -- The descent begins -- Excess -- Start in my new office -- Organized improvisation -- Sins of omission -- Commander in chief Hitler -- Intrigues -- Second man in the State -- Bombs -- Hitler in the Autumn of 1943 -- Downhill -- Illness -- The war thrice lost -- Blunders, secret weapons, and the SS -- Operation Valkyrie -- The wave from the West -- The plunge -- Doom -- Hilter's Utimatum -- The thirteenth hour -- Annihilation -- Stations of imprisonment -- Nuremberg.

The author, Hitler's architect and later his armaments minister, was in the dictator's inner circle for almost 12 years. After the war, Speer used the enforced leisure of his 20 prison years as a war criminal to plan and write these memoirs. This is the most revealing document on the Hitler phenonmenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, national socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer.