Word: autobahnen
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Bulldozers and sweating U.S. engineers finished a bridge across the Mulde. Over it rumbled the Berlin-bound U.S. troops. Soon Russians would cross it in the other direction to take over territory vacated by the Americans. On the Autobahnen of Saxony and Thuringia U.S. vehicles rumbled west and south, making way for the Russians. At the roadside crowds of German civilians, fleeing the Russians, trudged in the same direction...
...halves of Germany, Allied columns from the west were speeding down Autobahnen, hopping across rivers, rushing through white-flagged towns for more meetings with the Russians. General...
...Russian drive slowed as it approached the Oder. An unseasonal thaw made the going tougher for Red Army vehicles. Magnificent Autobahnen (express highways) enabled the Nazis to switch reserves quickly from one threatened spot to another. But the respite was only temporary. All along the Oder's east banks tremendous Russian forces were gathering like water behind a dam. German propagandists demanded a last-ditch stand, coined a slogan, "Victory or Siberia." Best bet: Siberia...
...Munitions and Major General; "in an aircrash"; reportedly somewhere east of Germany. The Nazis' No. 1 builder, he was in charge of military reconstruction in the wake of the Army's advances through Europe. Other Todt jobs: the Siegfried Line, the new Chancellery in Berlin, the Autobahnen, network of superhighways...
Installed in Hitler's Cabinet as Inspector General of Roads, Engineer Todt's first great job was to plan and build the Autobahnen. He employed as many as 250,000 men at a time. He covered Germany from Belgium to Poland and from the North Sea to Austria with a network of model high-speed highways, which could be used equally well for military or commercial transport. With the annexation of Austria and the conquest of Poland, Road-builder Todt added new links...