The debate over Speer's knowledge of, or complicity in, the Holocaust made him a symbol for people who were involved with the Nazi regime yet did not have (or claimed not to have had) an active part in the regime's atrocities.
Debatten om Speers viden om eller delagtighed i Holocaust gjorde ham til et symbol for folk, som var involveret i nazistyret, men som endnu ikke havde eller hævdede ikke at have taget aktiv del i styrets grusomheder.