The fabrications of Albert Speer
The Nazi architect wrote his own self-exculpatory story – but what about his crimes?
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Ian Thomson
Ian Thomson is a senior lecturer in creative non-fiction at the University of East Anglia and the biographer of Primo Levi.
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