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...addition to the two Cabinet posts and five other titles he holds, Beaverman Todt was made Inspector General for Water and Power, became in titles as well as in fact one of the most potent men in Germany outside of the Army...
Twin passions of Fritz Todt's life are engineering and Adolf Hitler. Just out of the University of Munich he served in World War I, joined the Nazi Party in 1923, remained a devoted and inconspicuous disciple, at length became a Standard-bearer in the Storm Troops. He worked as a construction engineer for a road-building company until the Nazis came to power...
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...
When General Georg Thomas began in 1935 to form the War Economy Board, Dr. Todt was called in to plan the engineering side of the conquests to come. With Germanic thoroughness he improvised his Economic Mobile Units to salvage anything from an outhouse to a mine in the wake of the armies...
...Todt was given the rank of Major General and set to building the Siegfried Line. He commuted to Berlin for a personal job for his boss, building in short order the new Reich Chancellery. He is also supposed to have constructed the Führer's retreat at Berchtesgaden...