The World at War (TV Series)

Barbarossa: June-December 1941 (1973)

Albert Speer: Self

Quotes 

• Albert Speer : ln August '39, when Hitler had signed the pact with Russia, in the evening, there was a movie, and this movie showed the parade of the Russian troops before the Kremlin. He was very much impressed and was relieved that now, with the pact, this army is neutralized. But afterwards, when the German troops met the Russian ones in occupying Poland, officers reported to Hitler that the equipment of those Russian units were very poor. He first didn't believe it so much, but then when the Russians attacked the Finns and they didn't have any progress, he was convinced that this was really the truth and he was now considering the Russian army no more as strong as before.