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...Battle of the Atlantic, were hard at work on "the largest naval bases ever built." Whether or not they were the largest ever, it seemed likely that the new French bases would be pretty good. They were the latest effort of the Nazis' Busiest Beaver, Dr. Fritz Todt,* and last week the Third Reich characteristically rewarded him-by giving him another huge...
...Working with the bulk of the German Army, which kills or imprisons the enemy physically, are the military Economic Mobile Units, which kill or imprison him materially and financially. These dashing arms of the service are largely the creation of Engineer Fritz Todt and General Georg Thomas. Todt's boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country...
Another of Göring's men last week got a boost in power and prestige. Hitler named Major General Dr. Fritz Todt (rhymes with butt) Minister for Arms & Munitions, gave him the immediate job of speeding up production of armaments...
...World War I flier and post-war engineer, affable, able Dr. Todt planned the German system of superhighways, designed most of the Westwall fortifications. In his new post he holds practically all the strings of German industry and technique, will answer only to Göring and his Führer...
...episode. "Things like that happen in Turkey," said a spokesman. "They usually are straightened out later." Meantime, Turkish spies reported that Russia, at whom Allied power in the Near East points most directly, was not so tranquil. Soviet engineers, advised by Germany's great fort-builder, Dr. Fritz Todt, are rushing fortifications in the Caucasus, using several hundred thousand workmen, to defend Russia's (and Germany's) oil supply. Already Russia has mined the approaches to all her big Black Sea ports...