Albert Speer Saw U.S. Factories Produce 96,000 Aircraft in 1944 – Knew Germany Was Doomed Discover how Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments, realized the inevitable collapse of Nazi Germany when he witnessed the staggering scale of American production. In 1944 alone, U.S. factories rolled out 96,000 aircraft—an industrial miracle that no amount of German efficiency could match. Speer, a man once convinced that German organization and engineering could secure victory, began to see the tru