That was after his ideological fling with the Nazis (Hitler already had his architect, Albert Speer), and before he became the architect of choice of big business.

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Albert Speer, the German armaments minister, expressed amazement that the repair operations were left untroubled by further bombing raids which would have delayed the vital reconstruction and turned a nuisance into a major crisis.

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