Fritz Todt Quotes

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

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• These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

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

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

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• Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

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Fritz Todt (8)

Birth:	4th September, 1891
Death:	8th February, 1942
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Civil Engineer, Founder, Soldier

About

Fritz Todt was born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. He was a German civil engineer, senior Nazi figure, Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition, and the founder of Organisation Todt. He studied at Technische Hochschule München and at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, receiving a Diplom degree in construction engineering from the latter. In World War I, he initially served with the infantry and then as front line reconnaissance observer within the Luftstreitkräfte, winning the Iron Cross. After his military service, he finished his studies in 1920 and joined at first the "Grün & Bilfinger AG, Mannheim" company and, later, the civil engineering company Sager & Woerner.

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