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Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior figure of the Nazi Party.[1]

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  1. 75 relations: Adam Tooze, Adolf Hitler, Alan Milward, Albert Speer, Atlantic Wall, Autobahn, Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Bilfinger, Chancellor of Germany, Civil engineering, Construction engineering, Diplom, Doktoringenieur, East Prussia, Eastern Front (World War II), Economy of Nazi Germany, Ernst Heinkel, Ernst Röhm, Führer, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Ferdinand Porsche, Forced labour, Forced labour under German rule during World War II, Four Year Plan, Franz W. Seidler, Gauleiter, Generalmajor, German Empire, German Labour Front, German National Prize for Art and Science, German Order (distinction), German-occupied Europe, Grand Duchy of Baden, Heinkel He 111, Hermann Göring, Hitler cabinet, Invalids' Cemetery, Iron Cross, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kętrzyn, Leutnant, Luftstreitkräfte, Luftwaffe, Military engineering, Nazi architecture, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nobel Prize, Obergruppenführer, ... Expand index (25 more) »

  2. Architects in the Nazi Party
  3. Engineers from Baden-Württemberg
  4. Government ministers of Nazi Germany
  5. Military logistics of Nazi Germany
  6. Recipients of the German Order (decoration)
  7. Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1942
  8. Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Poland
  9. Werner von Siemens Ring laureates

Adam Tooze

John Adam Tooze (born 5 July 1967) is an English historian who is a professor at Columbia University, Director of the European Institute and nonresident scholar at Carnegie Europe.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Fritz Todt and Adolf Hitler are Holocaust perpetrators and Nazi Party officials.

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Alan Milward

Alan Steele Milward, (19 January 1935 – 28 September 2010) was a British economic historian specialising in Western Europe and the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

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Albert Speer

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. Fritz Todt and Albert Speer are 20th-century German architects, architects in the Nazi Party, government ministers of Nazi Germany, Holocaust perpetrators, military logistics of Nazi Germany, Nazi Party officials, people from the Grand Duchy of Baden and technical University of Munich alumni.

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Atlantic Wall

The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bilfinger

Bilfinger SE (previously named Bilfinger Berger AG) is a European multinational company specialized in civil and industrial construction, engineering and services based in Mannheim, Germany.

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Chancellor of Germany

The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

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Construction engineering

Construction engineering, also known as construction operations, is a professional subdiscipline of civil engineering that deals with the designing, planning, construction, and operations management of infrastructure such as roadways, tunnels, bridges, airports, railroads, facilities, buildings, dams, utilities and other projects.

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Diplom

A Diplom (from δίπλωμα diploma) is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine and only for engineers in France, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Brazil.

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Doktoringenieur

The Doktoringenieur (acronym Dr.-Ing., also Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften) is the German engineering doctorate degree, comparable to the Doctor of Engineering, Engineering Doctorate, Doctor of Science (Engineering), Doctor of Science (Technology) or a PhD in Engineering or Architecture.

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East Prussia

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Economy of Nazi Germany

Like many other nations at the time, Germany suffered the economic effects of the Great Depression, with unemployment soaring after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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Ernst Heinkel

Dr. Fritz Todt and Ernst Heinkel are engineers from Baden-Württemberg.

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Ernst Röhm

Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Fritz Todt and Ernst Röhm are government ministers of Nazi Germany and Sturmabteilung officers.

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Führer

Führer (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term.

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Federal Agency for Civic Education

The Federal Agency for Civic Education (FACE, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)) is a German federal government agency responsible for promoting civic education.

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Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-Bohemian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG.

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Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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Four Year Plan

The Four Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936.

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Franz W. Seidler

Franz Wilhelm Seidler (born 2 March 1933) is a German historian, author and expert on German military history.

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Gauleiter

A Gauleiter was a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a Gau or Reichsgau.

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Generalmajor

Generalmajor is the Germanic variant of major general, used in a number of Central and Northern European countries.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German Labour Front

The German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront,; DAF) was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung or Nazification.

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German National Prize for Art and Science

Through statutes of 30 January 1937, the German Führer Adolf Hitler instituted the German National Order for Art and Science (Der Deutscher Nationalorden für Kunst und Wissenschaft) as a replacement for the Nobel Prize (Hitler forbade Germans to accept the latter award after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize retrospectively in November 1936 to an anti-Nazi German writer, Carl von Ossietzky.) The German National Prize was to be awarded each year to three outstanding German citizens who would each receive 100,000 Reichsmarks which could be equally divided.

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German Order (distinction)

The German Order (Deutscher Orden) was the highest award that the Nazi Party could bestow on an individual for his services to the "state and party".

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German-occupied Europe

German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

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Grand Duchy of Baden

The Grand Duchy of Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in south-west Germany on the east bank of the Rhine.

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Heinkel He 111

The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal. Fritz Todt and Hermann Göring are government ministers of Nazi Germany, Holocaust perpetrators, Luftstreitkräfte personnel, Nazi Party officials and Sturmabteilung officers.

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Hitler cabinet

The Hitler cabinet was the government of Nazi Germany between 30 January 1933 and 30 April 1945 upon the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich by President Paul von Hindenburg. Fritz Todt and Hitler cabinet are government ministers of Nazi Germany.

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Invalids' Cemetery

The Invalids' Cemetery (Invalidenfriedhof) is one of the oldest cemeteries in Berlin.

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Iron Cross

The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Kętrzyn

Kętrzyn (until 1946 Rastembork; Rastenburg) is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,478 inhabitants (2019).

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Leutnant

Leutnant is the lowest Junior officer rank in the armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr), the Austrian Armed Forces, and the military of Switzerland.

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Luftstreitkräfte

The Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte (German Air Combat Forces)known before October 1916 as Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches (The Imperial German Air Service, lit. "The flying troops of the German Kaiser’s Reich")was the air arm of the Imperial German Army.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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Military engineering

Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and military communications.

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Nazi architecture

Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Obergruppenführer

Obergruppenführer was a paramilitary rank in Nazi Germany that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and adopted by the Schutzstaffel (SS) one year later.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Order of the Crown of Italy

The Order of the Crown of Italy (italic or OCI) was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate the unification of Italy in 1861.

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Organisation Todt

Organisation Todt (OT) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party. Fritz Todt and organisation Todt are military logistics of Nazi Germany.

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Pforzheim

Pforzheim is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.

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Reich Labour Service

The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. Fritz Todt and Reich Labour Service are military logistics of Nazi Germany.

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Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production

The Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production was established on March 17, 1940, in Nazi Germany.

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Reichsautobahn

The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under Nazi Germany.

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Robert Ley

Robert Ley (15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German politician during the Nazi era, who headed the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945.

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Rolf-Dieter Müller

Rolf-Dieter Müller (born 9 December 1948) is a German military historian and political scientist, who has served as Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office since 1999.

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Siegfried Line

The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

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Technical University of Munich

The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth and comparative European colonial experiences.

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U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

The U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (National Violence Commission) was formed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in on June 10, 1968, after the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the June 5 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.

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Volk

The German noun Volk translates to people, both uncountable in the sense of people as in a crowd, and countable (plural Völker) in the sense of a people as in an ethnic group or nation (compare the English term folk).

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Werner von Siemens Ring

The Werner von Siemens Ring (in German orthography, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring) is one of the highest awards for technical sciences in Germany.

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Willy Messerschmitt

Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt (26 June 1898 – 15 September 1978) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. Fritz Todt and Willy Messerschmitt are technical University of Munich alumni.

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Wolf's Lair

The Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze; Wilczy Szaniec) served as Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Architects in the Nazi Party

Engineers from Baden-Württemberg

Government ministers of Nazi Germany

Military logistics of Nazi Germany

Recipients of the German Order (decoration)

Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1942

Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Poland

Werner von Siemens Ring laureates

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Todt

Also known as Dr. Todt, Fritz Taut.

, Operation Barbarossa, Order of the Crown of Italy, Organisation Todt, Pforzheim, Poland, Reconnaissance, Reich Labour Service, Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, Reichsautobahn, Robert Ley, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Siegfried Line, Soviet Union, Sturmabteilung, Technical University of Munich, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Volk, Wehrmacht, Werner von Siemens Ring, Willy Messerschmitt, Wolf's Lair, World War I, World War II.