Spandauer Tagebucher by Albert Speer dated 1975, first edition signed to the inside fly sheet by Speer, complete with dust jacket. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 - 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison