Speer's attorney, Hans Flächsner, presented Speer as an artist thrust into political life, who had always remained a non-ideologue and who had been promised by Hitler that he could return to architecture after the war.
Speers advokat, Dr. Hans Flächsner, beskrev Speer som en kunstner, der var skubbet ind i et politisk liv, men som altid forblev uideologisk, og som var blevet lovet af Hitler, at han kunne vende tilbage til arkitekturen efter krigen.