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The autobahn was presented to the German public as Hitler's idea: he was represented as having sketched out the future network of highways while in Landsberg Prison in 1924. [19] They were to be "the Führer's roads", a myth promoted by Todt himself, who coined the phrase and warned close associates not to "in any way [let] the impression arise ...
Hitler ceremonially starts the excavation works for the first Austrian autobahn (1938). "Reichsautobahn" in 1943 Just days after the 1933 Nazi takeover, Adolf Hitler enthusiastically embraced an ambitious autobahn construction project, appointing Fritz Todt , the Inspector General of German Road Construction, to lead it.
The RVM remained sidelined from construction of the largest single Nazi transportation project: the Autobahn. In July 1933, Fritz Todt was directly appointed by Adolf Hitler to build the huge road system quickly, and Transport Minister Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach thought it prudent not to complain at this obvious bypass of his authority. [6]
Objections from railway experts – who foresaw difficulties in introducing a new, incompatible gauge (and proposed quadruple track standard gauge lines instead), and who could not imagine any use for the vast transport capacity of such a railway – were ignored, and Hitler ordered the Breitspurbahn to be built with initial lines between ...
German Air Ministry Building: 1936 Hall of Models: Haus der Kunst: Munich 1937 Hitler Youth Clubhouse or Hitler-Jugend Heim: Jena Brücke: Lorient U-boat base: Lorient, France: 1941 Kehlsteinhaus (Eagles Nest) Obersalzberg: 1938 Lower Silesian Governor's Office Breslau: 1939-1945 Luftgaukommando Dresden Dresden: Luftgaukommando Munich Munich ...
Hitler and his entourage used this train to visit various fronts and theaters of war. For safety, a front train and rear train were used to prevent any possible attack. The train was originally named Führersonderzug "Amerika" , purportedly because Hitler wanted to pay homage to the European conquest of the Americas . [ 3 ]
Given these conditions, some segments of Berlinka became a minor tourist attraction in the years after the war, as an example of a Nazi-built autobahn preserved in an almost pristine state, carrying very little or no traffic. A number of movies made in Poland and the USSR that were set in Germany had their autobahn scenes shot on Berlinka sections.
On the north side of the plaza, straddling the River Spree, Speer planned to build the centrepiece of the new Berlin, an enormous domed building, the Volkshalle (people's hall), designed by Hitler himself. Had it been built, the Volkshalle would still be the largest enclosed space in the world today. Although war came before work could begin ...