Former Reichminister Albert Speer in old age.  He died with his myth of being the "Good Nazi" still largely intact.  More recent historians might beg to differ ... JR.

Old rogue ...

Albert Speer as a student. A short few years later, he became entranced by the oratory of Adolf Hitler, and began on a course that would lead to being created the principal architect of the Third Reich, and successor of Dr. Fritz Todt as the Reich's minister for works, and minister for war production. History has tended to treat Speer kindly, based on his masterly defence at the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals, and on his self justifying memoir, "Inside the Third Reich". More recent research has been less kindly to this person, whose responsibility for such little matters as slave and forced labour in the later days of the war are coming under increasing attention. Best regards, JR. 

Young Speer.

Hitler with Jakob Grimminger, official bearer of the "sacred" Blutfahne at a NSDAP rally, 1929.  Grimminger.  Grimminger wears the insignia of SS-Oberscharfuhrer, and the Star of the Turkish War Medal ("Iron Crescent") on his left breast.  Note Hitler's grasp on the Banner.  As his dedication to "Mein Kampf" indicates, Hitler retained a strong impression from the failed "Beer Hall Putsch", of which the Blood Banner (stained with blood of its martyr(s)), was promoted by him as a powerful symbolic representation of the small number of Nazis who fell in Munich that day.  This "first class relic" was subsequently used to consecrate innumerable Nazi banners and flags over the following period.  Best regards, JR.