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Fritz Todt

(1891–1942) Engineer

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Fritz Todt was an engineer, best known for Betriebskontrolle und Messwesen in der Rübenzuckerindustrie.

Quick Facts About Fritz Todt

Born: September 4, 1891
Died: February 8, 1942
Profession: Engineer
Notable works: Betriebskontrolle und Messwesen in der Rübenzuckerindustrie

About Fritz Todt

Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior political figure of the Nazi Party. In 1938, he founded Organization Todt (OT), a military-engineering organization that supplied German industry with forced labor, and he served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German wartime military economy from that position.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Fritz Todt

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

Appearance

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

Purpose

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The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of…

Appropriate

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

Engineering

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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…

Appearance

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The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its…

Animal

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The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living…

Big cities

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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…

Accusation

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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…

Beauty

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

Beauty

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

Beauty

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The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of…

Animal

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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…

Accusation

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

Alone

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

Character

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Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction…

Accomplishments

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Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

Comrade

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