Fritz Todt Quotes

• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Building, Accusation

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June, 1935.

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• In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Reconstruction, Uncontrollable

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.

  Fritz Todt

  Purpose

  "Fascism in action: A documented study and analysis of fascism in Europe". Book by Ernest S. Griffith, 1947.

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• Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

  Fritz Todt

  Workplace, Factories, Socialist

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 209, May, 1938.

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• The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Spiritual, Unique, Cities

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).

  Fritz Todt

  Construction Projects, Cities, Names

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 209, May 1938.

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• The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

  Fritz Todt

  Distance, Moving, Men

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.

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• I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

  Fritz Todt

  Effort, Imagine, Natural

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, p. 227, 2000.

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• The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Spiritual, Uncontrollable Urge

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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• We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

  Fritz Todt

  Character, Landscape

  "Vortrag in der Leipzig-Hochschule am 6.2.1934", Die Autobahn, 4/1934, p. 125, 1934.

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• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

  Fritz Todt

  Construction Projects, Appearance, Socialist

  "Deutsche Technik", May 1938.

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