The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed from Hitler's table in the situation room. The more fearful the situation, the greater was the gulf modern technology created between reality and fantasies with which the man at this table operated.

Speer also oversaw the construction of buildings for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe and developed a considerable organization to deal with this work. Speer would also receive from Hitler Youth Leader and later fellow Spandau prisoner Baldur von Schirach the Golden Hitler Youth Honor Badge with oak leaves. Wolters did not destroy the Chronicle and as his friendship with Speer deteriorated allowed access to the original Chronicle to doctoral student Matthias Schmidt (who after obtaining his doctorate developed his thesis into a book Albert Speer: The End of a Myth).

His level of involvement in the persecution of the Jews and his level of knowledge of the Holocaust remain matters of dispute. Speer died of natural causes in 1981 while on a visit to London.