Fritz Todt quotes
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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.”
-- Fritz TodtSource : "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.
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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 TodtSource : "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.
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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 TodtSource : "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.
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“The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.”
-- Fritz TodtSource : "Fascism in action: A documented study and analysis of fascism in Europe". Book by Ernest S. Griffith, 1947.
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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 TodtSource : "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, p. 227, 2000.
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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 TodtSource : "Deutsche Technik", May 1938.
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“We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.”
-- Fritz TodtSource : "Vortrag in der Leipzig-Hochschule am 6.2.1934", Die Autobahn, 4/1934, p. 125, 1934.
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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.”
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“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”
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“Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.”
-- Fritz TodtSource : "Deutsche Technik", p. 209, May, 1938.
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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
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