A three-part docu-drama based on the life of Albert Speer, the master architect of the Third Reich, the Minister of Armaments and Adolf Hitler’s closest friend. Seduced by power or craving it? Breloer tears open the shimmering veil of myths and half-truths obscuring this central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions, Speer was a cultivated intellectual who allied himself with the most horrifying criminal of the 20th century. A man from the upper classes, schooled in the humanities, who, as Minister of Armaments, controlled Germany’s wartime industry and used slave labor to increase production... A brilliant architect willing to design and build the ostentatious monuments and megalomaniac visions of a doomed erman Reich. A protégé who turned against his master during the last months of Hitler’s reign. Speer was the only Nazi leader at the Nuremberg trials to admit responsibility for the regime’s actions. For the first time ever, and exclusively for this production, three of Albert Speers’ six children -- an architect, a politician and a doctor -- were interviewed about their father and their memories of him. Confronted by Heinrich Breloer’s findings, they, too, undertake a painful attempt to uncover the truth about their father. Fictional re-enactments played out by a cast of leading German film and TV stars infuse the documentary character of the miniseries with emotional immediacy. The three parts of the docu-drama follow three different genres: 1. A children’s and war drama that focuses on the years of Speer’s greatest power as seen through the eyes of the children. 2. A courtroom drama set during the Nuremberg trials (presented for Input) 3. a prison drama portraying the twenty years of Speer’s imprisonment.