Albert Speer

I guess we have the video of him taking the vote.

Albert Speer was his

grandfather, apparently.

I, yeah, I mean, you know, I, we should play the video of the vote.

those of you who don't know, Dr. Fritz Toth was the head of Organization Toth, which was the – and please, Thomas, correct my pronunciation because I'm terrible at this sort of thing.

He was succeeded by Albert Speer, who was the guy who – Designed the Volkshall, but ultimately turned traitor after the war, and I have a low opinion of that.

Anyway, Dr. Tote goes to Technical University of Munich and gets a PhD in civil engineering on – effectively paving roads and he is the one who's responsible for the autobahn for the atlantic wall from for honestly most of you know the the third reich's construction projects um he was the um inspector general for water and energy the reich's minister for armaments munitions i mean

yeah that was the key that's what i mean the key really played was as as armaments minister you know in terms of the war effort and and um some of these projects that were essential to national defense to be clear with the autobahn too at um this kind of mass highway system raised pershing because uh you know pershing was um eisenhower was a disciple of pershing and that's basically where he inherited the idea for what became the interstate system and like a mass highway system among other things on a continent-sized um scale you needed to be able to deploy forces and being an event of general war and that was one of the reasons for the you know the eisenhower expressway system you know and say you can deploy east and west um rapidly and the autobahn obviously um when uh reich's commissariat moskvin was uh realized you know it had the soviet union been defeated and assimilated into the greater german reich you know the um the Autobahn was going to go from Spain to the Urals, you know?

The best thing Amazon has ever done is they did the Philip K. Dick Man in the High Castle, right?

yeah the the show is silly but the optics are brilliant yeah yeah like i've appropriated the flag that they utilize for some of my own purposes because it's that good oh

the aesthetics were on point but to give you just a here's here's a quote from that um the book i mentioned hitler's hitler's engineers fritz todd and albert speer master builders of the third reich uh Taut started developing detailed plans in July 1933, keeping Hitler closely abreast of the developments.

And then inner quote, although the entire road plan was Hitler's, and although he took the first step in organization of the plan, he allowed the general inspector and his staff, that is Taut, to make all decisions.

So when Romania's oil, Hitler sent all of his resources into rebuilding those refineries and they rebuilt them and they started pumping out oil.

And Albert Speer was sending back reports saying, okay, everything's, don't worry, we're pumping out oil.

Nothing happened.

The American raid did nothing.