His first two books - ''Inside the Third Reich'' (1970) and ''Spandau: The Secret Diaries'' (1976) - sold several million copies and made him a rich man. Speer was released from West Berlin's Spandau prison in 1966 after having completed his 20-year sentence, he made a career of writing his memoirs. There were those who thought he spent the rest of his life trying to expiate the horrors of the concentration camps and slave factories, and others who found his memoirs self-serving, showing the pure technician unmove d by human misery. Speer (the name is pronounced shpair) was the only Nazi leader at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials in 1945-46 to admit his guilt. He was also Hitler's chosen architect and stage designer, who devised plans for grandiose monuments and mass rallies. MONTGOMERYįrom the time he joined the National Socialist Party in 1931, Albert Speer was an important power in Hitler's movement, a dedicated administrator who kept the war machine running with forced labor and incessant planning. Speer was believed to have died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Speer had been taken to the hospital from a London hotel, where he was preparing for a television interview. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who became Minister of Armaments and War Production in World War II, died today at St.
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