Nazi Albert Speer’s Final Nuremberg Statement On Technocracy/ Technocracy News

Can you believe this speech by one of Hitler’s top Ministers is 75 years old?  Why have we forgotten what happened in WW2 and later, at Nuremberg?  Probably because the powers that be wanted us to forget.  Let’s remember.–Nass

Hitler relied on Technocrats to prosecute his war machine that conquered
nations and executed his “final solution” to get rid of genetically
impure segments of society. His ultimate goal was to create a master
race of super humans to live in an environmentally reset ecology. Albert
Speer was sentenced to 20 years at Nuremberg for his role in Nazi
Germany.– TN Editor

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Final statement Albert Speer

THE PRESIDENT: I call upon the Defendant Albert Speer.

ALBERT SPEER (Defendant): Mr. President, may it please the Tribunal:
Hitler and the collapse of his system have brought a time of tremendous
suffering upon the German people. The useless continuation of this war
and the unnecessary destruction make the work of reconstruction more
difficult. Privation and misery have come to the German people. After
this Trial, the German people will despise and condemn Hitler as the
proven author of its misfortune. But the world will learn from these
happenings not only to hate dictatorship as a form of government, but to fear it.
Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its
predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present
period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made
complete use of all technical means in a perfect manner for the
domination of its own nation.
Through technical devices such as
radio and loudspeaker 80 million people were deprived of independent
thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.
The telephone, teletype and radio made it possible, for instance, for
orders from the highest sources to be transmitted directly to the
lowest-ranking units, where, because of the high authority, they were
carried out without criticism. Another result was that numerous offices
and headquarters were directly attached to the supreme leadership, from
which they received their sinister orders directly. Also, one of the
results was a far reaching supervision of the citizen of the state and
the maintenance of a high degree of secrecy for criminal events. 

Perhaps to the outsider this machinery of the state may appear like the
lines of a telephone exchange – apparently without system. But like the
latter, it could be served and dominated by one single will.
Earlier dictators during their work of leadership needed highly
qualified assistants, even at the lowest level, men who could think and
act independently. The totalitarian system in the period of modern
technical development can dispense with them; the means of communication
alone make it possible to mechanize the subordinate leadership. As a
result of this there arises a new type: the uncritical recipient of
orders.
We had only reached the beginning of the development. The nightmare of
many a man that one day nations could be dominated by technical means,
was all but realized in Hitler’s totalitarian system.
Today the danger of being terrorized by technocracy threatens every
country in the world. In modern dictatorship this appears to me
inevitable. Therefore, the more technical the world becomes, the more
necessary is the promotion of individual freedom and the individual’s
awareness of himself as a counterbalance. 

Hitler not only took advantage of technical developments to dominate his
own people, he almost succeeded, by means of his technical lead, in
subjugating the whole of Europe. It was merely due to a few fundamental
shortcomings of organization such as are typical in a dictatorship
because of the absence of criticism, that he did not have twice as many
tanks, aircraft and submarines before 1942.
But, if a modern industrial state utilizes its intelligence, its
science, its technical developments, and its production for a number of
years in order to gain a lead in the sphere of armament, then even with a
sparing use of its manpower it can, because of its technical
superiority, completely overtake and conquer the world, if other nations
should employ their technical abilities during that same period on
behalf of the cultural progress of humanity.
The more technical the world becomes, the greater this danger will be,
and the more serious will be an established lead in technical means of
warfare.
This war ended with remote-controlled rockets, aircraft traveling at the
speed of sound, new types of submarines, torpedoes which find their own
target, with atom bombs and with the prospect of a horrible kind of
chemical warfare.
Of necessity the next war will be overshadowed by these new destructive inventions of the human mind.
In 5 or 10 years the technique of warfare will make it possible to fire
rockets from continent to continent with uncanny precision. By atomic
power it can destroy one million people in the center of New York in a
matter of seconds with a rocket
operated, perhaps by only 10 men, invisible, without previous warning,
faster than sound, by day and by night. Science is able to spread
pestilence among human beings and animals and to destroy crops by insect
warfare. Chemistry has developed terrible weapons with which it can
inflict unspeakable suffering upon helpless human beings.
Will there ever again be a nation which will use the technical
discoveries of this war for the preparation of a new war, while the rest
of the world is employing the technical progress of this war for the
benefit of humanity, thus attempting to create a slight compensation for
its horrors? As a former minister of a highly developed armament
system, it is my last duty to say the following:
A new large scale war will end with the destruction of human culture and
civilization. Nothing can prevent unconfined engineering and science
from completing the work of destroying human beings, which it has begun
in so dreadful a way in this war.
Therefore this Trial must contribute towards preventing such degenerate
wars in the future and towards establishing rules whereby human beings
can live together.
Of what importance is my own fate, after everything that has happened, in comparison with this high goal?
During the past centuries the German people have contributed much
towards the creation of human civilization. Often they have made these
contributions in times when they were just as powerless and helpless as
they are today. Worthwhile human beings wilI not let themselves be
driven to despair. They will create new and lasting values, and under
the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon everyone today these new
works will be of particular greatness.
But if the German people create new cultural vaiues in the unavoidable
times of their poverty and weakness and at the same time in the period
of their reconstruction, then they well have in that way made the most
valuable contribution to world events which they could make in their
position.
It is not the battles of war alone which shape the history of humanity
but also, in a higher sense, the cultural achievements which one day
will become the common property of all humanity. A nation which believes
in its future wiIl never perish. May God protect Germany and the
culture of the West.