Albert Speer ran Nazi Germany's war production machine using millions of slave laborers worked to death in his factories, yet walked out of Nuremberg with a twenty-year sentence instead of a rope. This film traces how he managed it, starting with his post-war interrogation by Paul Nitze of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, who needed Speer's detailed knowledge of how Allied bombing had actually affected German industry. Speer became, by his own design, an exemplary collaborator, trading information for leniency and laying the groundwork for the myth he would spend decades building afterward. Released after twenty years in prison, he reinvented himself as a media figure, cultivating the image of the technocrat who claimed he never really knew what was happening to the people who died building his factories. Drawing on archival footage, wartime documents, and historian interviews, the film follows that reputation forward to his death and the research that finally dismantled it, showing exactly how much Speer knew and when he knew it.