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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]
Today, that road is the Bundesautobahn 555. [11] [12] [13] This road was not yet called Autobahn and lacked a centre median like modern motorways, but instead was termed a Kraftfahrstraße ("motor vehicle road") with two lanes each direction without intersections, pedestrians, bicycles, or animal-powered transportation. [14]
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.
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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 ...
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 ]
In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group's forlorn masterpiece, 'Midnight Train to Georgia.'