Speer made no mention of it in the first draft of Inside the Third Reich, and it was only on the urgent advice of his publisher that he added a mention of seeing the ruins of the Central Synagogue in Berlin from his car.
Speer omtalte den ikke i første udkast til sine Erindringer, og det var kun efter indtrængende råd fra sin forlægger, at han tilføjede at have set ruinerne af centralsynagogen i Berlin fra sin bil.