32 Speer's memorandum to Hitler of 29th March 1945, IMT, XLI Speer-24. Schwerin von Krosigk's verdict on Speer's ministerial role:
'Speer's personality played a greater part in his success than his technical knowledge — certainly indisputable in details — or his talent for organization. His artistic imagination had enabled him to discern the constructive lines more rapidly and to a wider extent than others and to grasp their importance - it also stopped him from giving his ministry a practical plan of organisation. Under him worked, not departments with firmly delineated duties, but men with specific tasks which often over- lapped' (Es geschah in Deutschland).