Dr. Fritz Todt Nazi Era Biography

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FRITZ TODT - THE BEST BOOK OF HIS LIFE

FRITZ TODT
der Mensch, der Ingenieur,
der Nationalsozialist

GERMAN CIVIL ENGINEER
DR. FRITZ TODT PHOTO-BIOGRAPHY BOOK

This rare German hardcover book is called FRITZ TODT - der Mensch, der Ingenieur, der Nationalsozialist (Fritz Todt - the Man, the Engineer, the National Socialist). The book measures 8 x 10-1/2 inches, is very heavily illustrated and contains 118 pages, was written by Eduard Schönleben and was published by Verlag Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg, Germany in 1943.

Dr. Ing. Fritz Todt was born in Pforzheim, Germany in 1891, studied engineering in München (Munich) and served in the German Air Force as a flying observer in World War I. He gained great experience in civil engineering working for the famous construction firm of Sager & Woerner after that war.

Todt was an early
National Socialist,
and his energy and
capacity caught
the eye of Nazi
Party Führer
Adolf Hitler.

Hitler and Todt liked each other from the start. Todt became an expert in the construction of things like roads, bridges, waterways, airports, etc.

In 1933, as Germany’s 23rd Chancellor, Hitler put Todt 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 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 botht 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 Nazi honors.

Historians invariably give Todt enormous credit for the engineering and military acccomplishments of Third Reich Germany. He was certainly among the top 1% of all the engineers in the world during the Second World War.

This very rare book provides the complete story of Dr. Todt’s life and untimely death, copiously illustrated with around 150 seldom seen full-page and half-page black & white photographs. The cover of this book has yellowed with age, but the binding is tight and the inside is complete and in very good condition.

This Dr. Fritz Todt Nazi photo biography is offered for sale
for $275.00 delivered to any address in the USA.
USM book# 263

To see the 1942 Nazi armaments book with Fritz Todt foreword, click HERE.
For original Reichsautobahn postcards, click HERE.

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