Albert Speer Jr, the son of Adolf Hitler's chief architect who had his own accomplished architectural career but struggled to distance himself from his father's legacy, has died at the age of 83.
The architecture firm he founded, Albert Speer + Partner GmbH, said Mr Speer died on Saturday in Frankfurt.
— dw.com
He gave an interview just a couple of months ago. He struck me as a really dedicated and intelligent urbanist and architect working for social good.
ttps://www.newyorker.com/cult...
Regardless of his name, we should all hope that more like him join the profession.
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Time to break out the Grölsch.
you mean grolsch, the dutch beer?
https://media.giphy.com/media/....
Exactly. I'm half Dutch, my Grandmother hated the Nazis, my father's family spent the 1940's running from the Nazis and work camps.
Really Ken? The guy literally spent his entire life trying to dissociate himself from that legacy. He largely tried to remain out of the limelight and from the few interviews i've read from him was adament in denouncing that past, largely shutting his father out from any contact entirely.
I think I'd have gone into insurance or retail.
Oh, and changed my name.
So Ken Robert, you're celebrating the death of this guy because his father was a Nazi? I'm sorry but that's just ridiculous. This guy has nothing to do with his father's Nazi past, if anything he worked his entire life to contribute something positive to the world through his practice. As a Dutch man whose country(men and women) and grandparents also suffered from the Nazi's I have totally nothing against Albert Speer Jr. May I ask what the other half of your heritage is, so maybe I can celebrate and bring out the jenever when you kick the bucket.
Sure, I can do that. Part Irish, part English. Whew. I'm sure plenty will mourn the loss, and totally make light of that heritage. But then, if you're Dutch, you already know the burden of our colonial slave trade. So, I'm down with people slamming the Dutch too.
I'm being sarcastic. I'm well aware of the burden the son dealt with, and his disavowal of his father.
Your first post doesn't come across as sarcastic to me. I find it a real d*ck move to celebrate this man's death, sarcastic my a$$, you were just being an asshole and you know it. And on a personal note, I don't feel the burden of "our" colonial slave trade at all, was well before my time. I only feel the burden of exchanging New Amsterdam for Suriname, would have been nice if this forum was in Dutch instead of English ;-)
Ha! I was being an asshole, douche. If you don't feel burdened by our slave trading, and slave owning ancestors. You're the one that's fucked, not me.
Bye Felicia.
So I'm the douche because you're celebrating this guy's death? Go fuck yourself, wanker...
He gave an interview just a couple of months ago. He struck me as a really dedicated and intelligent urbanist and architect working for social good.
ttps://www.newyorker.com/cult...
Regardless of his name, we should all hope that more like him join the profession.
wanker? Yeah, you are a douche if you are dismissing our ancestors role in slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Screw you you moron, this guy was 5 days old when Hitler became Führer and like 5 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. But Kenny will celebrate this guy's death, you're pathetic. And by the way, your arsehole is the only part of you that's Dutch, built like a proper dike because somehow all the shit comes through your mouth.
Bookmarking that one for next time I'm in NL and need a snappy line... ha!
that is gutte, sehr gutte!
Hey! Jake LaMotta died yesterday!
Was Jake a Nazi? I can never remember...
I'm pretty sure he was Goebbels nephew, I mean the way he treated his wife, OMG!
Ah, of course, Goebbels. He was involved in that whole Richard Gere emergency-room unpleasantness, wasn't he?
Now you've gone too far! Goebbels is not, a gerbil!
Sorry, I do that, don't I? This is why we can't have nice things.
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