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Fritz Todt Biography

Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer, senior Nazi figure, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he oversaw the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he led the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he founded what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of the Third Reich. He died in a mysterious plane crash in 1942.

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In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Already, Beauty, Places, Reconstruct, Reconstruction, Uncontrollable

The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable. . . when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Disturb, Places, Right, Space, Spiritual, Unique

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

Factories, National, Socialist, Workplace, Workplaces

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Accusation, Accused, Building, Buildings, Engineering

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

Appearance, Construction Projects, Created, Reich, Socialist

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

Distance, Distances, Fly, Men, Moving, Points

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i. e. , the natural world).

Cities, Construction Projects, Factories, Names, Projects, Properly

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Conquered, Effort, Imagine, Make, Natural

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Build, Character, Correspond, German, Landscape

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

Beauty, Caused, Cities, Clear, Life, Spiritual

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Engineering, Love, Mind, Movement

The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.

Become, Hitler, Purpose, Reichsautobahnen, Roads