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...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...
...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...
Died. Fritz Todt, 50, German Minister of 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...
...months after the war started, Dr. Todt was tossed still another job. As Minister for Armaments and Munitions, he became straw boss for the whole German munitions industry...
Part of Dr. Todt's success is undoubtedly due to his diplomatic way with his Führer. When in 1938 he wanted to build the great Elbe bridge, he did not try to go ahead under his own steam to requisition materials from Germany's scant stocks of steel and iron. Instead he got quick action by suggesting that Hitler himself help to design...