Albert Speer(1905-1981)

At the Nuremberg Trials Speer claimed that after being given orders to implement "Operation Nero" (a plan to destroy everything of military, industrial or agricultural value in areas of Germany not overrun by the Allies) he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by introducing poison gas into the Berlin bunker. He said he failed due to both failed nerves and the placement of a strengthened filtering system. However Speer's claims were widely ridiculed by his co-defendants, and are dismissed by historians.

[November 30, 1952] Whatever turn my life takes in the future, whenever my name is mentioned, people will think of Hitler. I shall never have an independent existence. And sometimes I see myself as a man of seventy, children long since adult and grandchildren growing up, and wherever I go people will not ask about me but about Hitler.