[on
Albert Speer] Speer's most successful piece of architectural theatre was the brilliant feat of announcing the Führer at Nürnberg by training hundreds of searchlight beams up into the sky, like Doric columns of light. It was a magnificent conception which, 60 years later, would be plagiarised by the Americans to mark the disappearance of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. No credit was given to Speer, who was dead by then.