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. It mixes historical film material with reconstructions, as well as interviews with three of Speer's children,

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, Arnold Speer and Hilde Schramm. The appended documentary confronts several interviewees including Wolf Jobst Siedler,

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and Speer relatives with evidence that Speer knew in detail that some

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functioned as killing factories, something he consistently maintained he could have found out but never actually knew.

Structure

* Part 1: Germania – The Delusion * Part 2:

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– The

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* Part 3:

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– The Punishment * Documentary

Cast

The following list gives the name of each actor followed by the real historical figure played. It does not include the many people interviewed as themselves.

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