Fritz Todt - German Book 1943 /w150 photos Reichsautobahn Architecture

Offered for sale is this hard to find book published in 1943 to honor one of the most ingenious persons in the Third Reich: Fritz Todt

Todt was put in charge of all highway construction in Germany including that of the Reichsautobahn system, the world's first real freeway system.

The job simply could not have suited Fritz Todt better. A master of organization, he quickly began planning and building a system of thousands of miles of super highways (many miles of which are still in use in their ORIGINAL form) on which all freeway systems in the world are now modeled.

Hitler also called upon Todt to build the Westwall, a concrete defensive line of "dragon's teeth" along the western border of Germany. In 1940, when France surrendered after a "desperate" battle of several days, Todt began the construction of enormous concrete bunkers and gun emplacements along the English Channel.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Todt was given a new career - replacing the thousands of inadequate, destroyed or damaged bridges in the Ukraine and Russia. During the same period Todt also erected huge concrete "pens" for German U-Boots (submarines) near Lorient on the west coast of France.

Holding a general's rank in both he SA and SS, this human dynamo was killed at age 52 in an airplane crash on the Eastern Front on 8 February 1942 while making a return trip to his office in Berlin.
Hitler provided Todt with one of the largest and most impressive funeral services ever held in the New Reichschancellery in Berlin. He was buried with full NS honors.

Hardcover

• 117 pages
• ~150 full page and half-page b/w photos on art paper

In good exterior and very good interior condition
Spine and rear board lightly stained, otherwise ok with minor signs of use and age.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 10-1/4" x 8"  ~1.3 lbs.