Interesting post. Speer's story is a fascinating study of how an otherwise intelligent person can get totally blindsided by an avalanche of evil and commit unspeakable evil himself without admitting it or recognizing what he was doing--all in the spirt of nationalism.

Yes, history repeats itself and we have a lot of Speers running around our own government, doing the will (and evil) of lesser men--all in the spirit of nationalism. I wonder how history will judge them--if we're lucky enough to have history in the future, given the weapons at their disposal and their willingness to blindly use them.