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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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
A ride on Breitspurbahn is featured in the video game Wolfenstein: The New Order. The railway network is also mentioned in novels Fatherland and The Fuhrer's Orphans. An American version of the Breitspurbahn is depicted in the TV series Supertrain. In the television series Snowpiercer, the titular train bears many similarities to the Breitspurbahn.
An Adolf Hitler speech was played over a loudspeaker on a train in Austria on Sunday, 14 May. In footage posted by Green Party MP David Stoegmueller, a speech in which the Nazi German leader says ...
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The train car was indeed real, Cahill pointed out. But it seemed like part of a Hollywood prop because there were no seats inside. They were still being designed.