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Why was Albert Speer sentences to imprisonment?

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Largely because of the OT's wide use of slave labor Speer was sentenced (1946) to imprisonment for 20 years by the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal. He was released from Spandau war crimes prison in 1966.

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