How the son of ‚Hitler’s architect‘ helped bring the World Cup to Qatar – Albert Speer Jr. tried to get out from under his father’s legacy, but despite his ostensibly humanitarian and eco-friendly style, he often worked for authoritarian regimes | Timesofisrael

LONDON — It is perhaps apt that the man who helped bring the World Cup to Qatar — one of the most controversial sporting events since the Berlin Olympics of 1936 — was the son of “Hitler’s favorite architect.”
It is not, however, a comparison that the now-deceased Albert Speer Jr. would have welcomed.
Speer, one of Germany’s most successful postwar urban planners and architects, spent much of his life attempting to escape the long and dark shadow of his father’s role in Hitler’s court and the Third Reich’s war machine.