Word: todt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...today my friends captured a Todt organization headquarters and found cognac and wine. So for lunch there were shell eggs (opposite: dried) and cognac with a stew compounded of vegetables and D rations, alt this sitting in an apple orchard in full bloom. It would be lovely if you could ignore the shelling, the dirt, the burning fatigue...
...then shook her fist at the smoky ceiling and gasped: "God damn the English." All night long, dull explosions continued as time bombs went off or workmen dynamited dangerously weakened walls. By morning most of the fires were out. Smoke hung over the town; everywhere brigades of the Organisation Todt, foreign workers, war prisoners, soldiers and civilians were clearing the streets. Past them the people trudged to work. Here and there field kitchens doled out emergency rations...
...invasion coast, from the Hook of Holland to the Breton Peninsula, hums and crackles like a great anthill with the Germans' building and rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping...
...coast drops into sullen, soundless darkness. Below the earth, behind great blackout curtains, men still work with concrete and steel. But the hard-eyed German gunners behind the barbed wire on the beaches, the spectacled technicians at the radio detectors on the cliffs, no longer feel the spirit of Todt, the fortress builder. At night-almost every night-there is fighting to be done, and any night may bring the first crashing thrust of invasion. As soldiers always do, men on the late watches talk of home, of furloughs and women, of comrades on other fields. But the spirit that...
...still another. Perhaps the Nazis were simply getting set to ward off any Allied attempt on Norway. Although the Nazis have fortified key points from Trondheim south, northern Norway is far from impregnable. Last week, while Nazi Munitions Minister Albert Speer, successor to the late Masterbuilder Major General Fritz Todt (TIME, Feb. 16), sped work on defenses to the north, the Norwegians were tripping and clipping him with sabotage. One highly effective means was the touching off of fires in plants housing vital Nazi war industries...