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treads of armored vehicles would severely damage the roadway. He also regarded the light-colored concrete that was to be used for the roadways as a guide for enemy aircraft (beginning in 1937, the surface was tinted black for this reason, which distressed Hitler) and the planned large viaducts as tempting targets, "like honey to wasps". Border segments that could have been useful at the start of the war had not been completed because of earlier fears that enemies would use them to invade, and weight testing was not performed until March 1939. The German military rarely used the autobahns for troop movements (one of the exceptions being transporting flak units); they were used much more extensively at war's end by the advancing Allies, who did indeed damage them in the process. In fact as the war continued, fuel shortages led the German military to make increasing use of horses rather than motorized transportation.
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factor). Numerous celebrations all over the Reich kept the project in the public eye. It was therefore logical from the point of view of the regime that the majority of funding came from the employment department. Todt had foreseen the creation of at least 600,000 jobs. However, autobahn employment peaked in 1936 at 124,483 directly employed in construction and a similar number in the supply chain, so that the autobahn never directly or indirectly employed more than 250,000 workers. Rearmament was responsible for a far greater share of unemployment reduction, and the peak years of autobahn employment came long after the first two years of Nazi rule, when the need for jobs was most urgent.
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402:. There after further speeches, Hitler was to inaugurate work on the autobahn system with the first ceremonial shoveling of dirt to form the base of an embankment. However, as Todt described the scene in an illustrated album published in 1935, "again and again his shovel plunged into the mound . This was no symbolic shoveling; this was real construction work!" Two of the workers "sprang ... to help him", and they worked "until the mound had been dealt with in an orderly fashion and ... the first drops of sweat were dripping from his brow onto the earth." The image of Hitler shoveling was used many times in propaganda, including superimposed on the workers' march in
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two hours' march from the camp, and had no access to food or water. The pressure on the workers was considerable, especially after Hitler publicly alluded in 1937 to the objective of completing 1,000 km (620 mi) a year. After mid-1936, workdays lasting 11 to 12 hours were the norm. There was a high incidence of back injuries to men who were unaccustomed to physical work after long unemployment and in many cases undernourished. Numerous accidents occurred, some fatal, due to the rapid pace of work, exhaustion, and unfamiliarity with heavy machinery; after the first five years, one worker died per 6 km (3.7 mi) completed.
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676:, celebrated on 23 September 1940, the seventh anniversary of Hitler's opening of the project. Work on approximately 3,000 km (1,900 mi) had begun but remained unfinished; of this, work had stopped on approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) in October 1940. Completion of the 4,000th kilometer was foreseen and a medallion designed to celebrate it, but that milestone was never reached. The engineers were put to work restoring bridges in the occupied territories and later, converting rail tracks in the USSR to
1182:, led to increasing dominance of the view that the autobahns should provide, as Emil Maier-Dorn put it in 1938, "not the shortest but, rather, the most sublime connection between two points". By 1939 and possibly earlier, sinuous forms predominated. Although Todt had hired Seifert and his landscapers in order to ensure the "German character" of the autobahn, he initially favored the railroad engineers' views on layout; the decisive factor was cost, namely the reduction in the number of embankments and bridges needed.
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100:") and presented as a major contribution to the reduction of unemployment. Other reasons for the project included enabling Germans to explore and appreciate their country, and there was a strong aesthetic element to the execution of the project under the Third Reich; military applications, although to a lesser extent than has often been thought; a permanent monument to the Third Reich, often compared to the pyramids; and general promotion of motoring as a modernization that in itself had military applications.
1199:(the beautiful road under construction and in use); the only criticism of the picture was that the contrast between the light-colored road and the landscape was too harsh, illustrating the strong desire for harmony between the highway and its surroundings. In fact this entire 125 km (78 mi) segment epitomizes planning to maximize aesthetic appreciation of the landscape. Todt, who was credited with choosing the route, described it as an orchestrated experience culminating in the surprise view of the
1041:(equivalent to €26 billion in 2021), of which 4.6 billion RM was still owed, almost 74% to the employment department. Costs were inflated by the aesthetic requirements, by shortages of raw materials, by the need to repair work that had been performed poorly under time pressure, and by the initial failure to include in the cost estimates connector roads between the autobahns and existing roads. In post-war Germany, opinions of the Reichsautobahn included recognizing that it had been a
965:), and diagonal connections between Berlin and Hamburg and Breslau. HAFRABA's main north–south route was truncated; it was only completed in 1962. However, in addition to the extension of plans into the former Austria, as territories were added to the Reich during the early phases of the war, Reichsautobahn planning was extended to include them. Autobahn engineers went into Poland before the invasion was complete, Hitler ordered the incorporation of a highway reaching from Aachen through
1203:, where "nyone who has a proper feel for this landscape ... turns off the motor and silently glides down the three-kilometer-long slope to the southern shore of the lake, where a bathing beach, parking places, or the invite you to stay and rest"; and according to Seifert, of the 13 possibilities for the continuation from the Chiemsee down to the Salzburg plain, the engineers had selected the only one that " the impossible possible" by "continu ... on another level".
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program as the third on his list of four means of realizing it. Weimar
Germany was car-mad, and the number of private vehicles had increased from 130,346 in 1924 to 489,270 in 1932, but the percentage of car owners lagged behind that in other European countries, not to mention the U.S. This was still true in 1937; at best, most Germans could afford a motorbike, not a car, and the following year the highway commissioner of the State of
1239:, in the median. In fact the driver's experience of the forest, assigned symbolic importance in German Romanticism and particularly under the Nazis, was maximized by avoiding straightaways in forested areas so that the driver remained enclosed by the trees as long as possible. To some extent the autobahn landscapers were influenced in this emphasis on the natural environment by the American parkways; Todt had a 1934
1255:'s southern stretches. But the Reichsautobahn aimed for a more natural, less parklike view from the road, and although in both countries using natively occurring plants in highway landscaping was important, the Americans selectively emphasized those with an attractive appearance. Also, the autobahn was at the time presented, by Todt and others, as an improvement to the natural landscape; Todt refused to avoid the
1279:(road governance stations) at roughly 50 to 100 km (31 to 62 mi) intervals maintained the highway and assisted motorists in trouble. These were usually located near settlements, where they provided jobs for 15 to 20 people. The first filling stations were located in the triangle formed by the exit and access lanes, and were of simple, modern design, most of them built to a few standardized designs; the
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far superior pay and working conditions. The policy of minimizing the use of machinery was reversed and pay was increased, those unemployed who refused assignment to the autobahn were punished by suspension of benefits for up to 12 weeks, and after the annexation of
Austria and of the Sudetenland, workers from there were almost immediately put to work on the autobahn, but increasingly the project used
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Intelligence report noted that sections that would have been militarily useful were not completed and that some completed sections were not apparently used during the war. The project did, however, develop logistical skills and technology that were used for military purposes, notably in the building of the
Westwall under Todt's supervision, and it disguised the development of those resources.
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508:. To avoid a recurrence of such problems, a policy was put in place of investigating men for political reliability before they were hired for work on the autobahn, access to the workers' camps was restricted, a surveillance network was instituted in which the Gestapo participated increasingly, and the few SA members among the workers were organized into
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431:("work battle"), which also included construction of dams and residences and agricultural work. Autobahn work sites had been established at 22 locations, governed by 9 regional work divisions (which became 15 by mid-1934), distributed throughout the Reich for maximum public visibility, and work was ceremonially initiated at 15 of the sites. At
514:("construction storms") that provided both example and intimidation at work sites. There were nonetheless several further strikes in 1935, and increasing numbers of fires were ascribed to sabotage by disgruntled workers. Todt attempted to make worker housing into "worthy lodgings", and had camps specially built, beginning with a model camp at
486:). However, the emphasis on east–west connections and on attracting foreign tourists and promoting automobile touring meant that the completed sections did not constitute a useful network for freight transportation until 1937. In 1938, construction priorities shifted with the preparation for war. Todt was given responsibility for building the
466:(now Wrocław, Poland), five segments being opened to traffic that day. 2,000 km (1,200 mi) were completed by the end of 1937, and 3,000 km (1,900 mi) by the end of 1938, when the planned network was also extended from 7,000 km (4,300 mi) to 12,000 km (7,500 mi) after the annexation of Austria and the
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city—often including the heraldic animal or complete coat of arms—imposing sculptures were planned for many such exits, usually involving eagles towering above the road, as in
Bestelmeyer's sketch for the entrance to Heidelberg and Speer's 1936 design for a dramatic gateway at the border near Salzburg.
1418:(The Road), which opened in Munich in 1934 and in which the autobahns were presented in artworks as the culmination of the history of human roadbuilding. This exhibition was subsequently shown in Berlin and Breslau, and other exhibitions occurred later in, for example, Prague (1940) and Budapest (1942).
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in 1938 of autobahn driving as overwhelmingly passive: "It is a mark of how passive we are, of how much the sweep of road affects our senses, that the relationship between driver and road seems to be reversed. The road takes the active role, moving toward us quickly and smoothly, ... sucking the
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Subsequently, the preferred style for the large bridges evolved away from this modern form toward viaducts derived from Roman bridges, which had a more imposing mass, allowed the reflection of regional building styles in their use of stone and brick, and embodied the Nazi claim to be the heirs to the
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arena below it. Similarly, bridges were to avoid the "inorganic architecture" of the 19th century associated with the
Reichsbahn, and were not to obtrude into the motorist's view with high arches, so they were almost unnoticeable from the highway, and therefore viewing platforms were provided so that
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Motorization clearly had a military application, providing trucks and drivers that could be used by the military. In addition, Todt's report cited troop transportation as a reason to develop highways: he stated that using 100,000 requisitioned vehicles, it would be possible to transport 300,000 shock
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As the economy improved and the rearmament effort accelerated, it became impossible to find enough workers; they were for a while brought in from the big cities where unemployment remained highest, primarily
Hamburg and Berlin, but in 1937 full employment was achieved, and armaments factories offered
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Foreign visitors reported generally favorably on the autobahns, particularly the foreign press in
Germany for the 1936 Olympics; in October 1937 it was noted that an English visitor had remarked on the "real democracy" at an autobahn work site, and in September 1936 the former British Prime Minister
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One aspect of this was the sheer size of the project, which was constantly presented to the public not only by ceremonies starting work on and opening segments, but by radio broadcasts (including at least two dramas as well as informational broadcasts and coverage of ceremonies), posters, postcards,
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They were frequently classed as a wonder of the modern world and especially compared to the
Egyptian pyramids. For example, Emil Maier-Dorn wrote: "The Reichsautobahn must become, like the Great Wall of China, like the Acropolis of the Athenians, like the pyramids of Egypt, a tower on the landscape
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The specifications for the autobahns were based on those developed by HAFRABA. They were designed as four-lane limited-access highways, with a central median, road surfaces in each direction normally 24 m (79 ft) wide (widened on some major segments immediately before the war), surfaced in
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entertainment, books, and propaganda movies were also provided from that point on. One worker wrote in 1975 of the camp where he had lived in 1937 that he would still describe the living conditions as "absolutely model". However, conditions remained very poor. Work sites were often remote, as far as
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Despite initial promises that the first segment would open in
September 1934, to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the ground-breaking and with the 7th International Road Congress, this did not happen until 19 May 1935, when the 22 km (14 mi) stretch between Frankfurt and Darmstadt
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by Bonatz. In addition to the self-image of modernity, another reason for this was the enormous cost of stone construction in man-hours and in material; so much masonry construction was carried out in the Third Reich that shortages occurred. Hence many of the viaducts were in simplified, modernized
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car, for the Nazi recreation organization) was developed and marketed in association with the autobahn to promote car ownership; Hitler first publicly called for its development at the opening of the first
Reichsautobahn segment. The war effort put an end to efforts at mass motorization, as savings
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When construction was stopped, of the 3,870 km (2,400 mi) of completed highway segments, approximately 80% was surfaced in concrete, approximately 10% paved, and the remaining 10% surfaced with asphalt. This compared to approximately 565 km (351 mi) of concrete-surfaced roads in
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Working conditions were hard and the pay very low, because it was based on the lowest local wage and unlike unemployment payments did not include an allowance for living expenses. There was also no payment until winter 1938 for bad weather days when work could not take place. Workers were initially
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in 1924. They were to be "the FĂĽhrer's roads", a myth promoted by Todt himself, who coined the phrase and warned close associates not to "in any way the impression arise that I built the autobahns. They are to be reckoned as simply and solely the FĂĽhrer's roads." Hof, an enthusiastic party member,
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However, HAFRABA was never able to surmount the logistical problems of building a highway through many different jurisdictions, or the funding problems of such a large undertaking. Moreover, legislators condemned it as a luxury project that would benefit only the few wealthy enough to own cars; the
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In addition, the Reichsautobahn was to have had a large amount of monumental sculpture. The viewing platforms from which travelers could admire the bridges often had obelisks or columns topped with eagles and swastikas. In addition to the large signs on the bridges immediately before the exit to a
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was designed to be narrow and unobtrusive. Cost had the opposite effect with respect to plantings than it did with respect to curves: the Reichsautobahn landscapers had performed pioneering analyses of local ecosystems that led them to plant intensively in order to reconstruct what they determined
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A speed limit of 100 km/h (62 mph) had been imposed in May 1939 to save fuel; during the war this was lowered to 80 km/h (50 mph), and private cars were allowed on the autobahns only in exceptional circumstances. (By 1943, traffic was so low that bicycles were permitted.) Other
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After the war began in September 1939, a further 560 km (350 mi) of autobahn were completed, bringing the total to 3,870 km (2,400 mi), before work ceased almost entirely in late 1941 with the worsening of the war situation in Russia. This included the connection of the Avus to
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Another important reason for building highways was to motorize Germany. This accorded with the Nazis' self-presentation as modernizers. On 11 February 1933, at the Berlin Motor Show, Hitler had already presented promotion of motoring as an important objective, and named an extensive road-building
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Probably most importantly, the autobahns were created as a monument to the Third Reich, both internally and internationally; in the words of historian Thomas Zeller, "to symbolize power and the conquest of space". Todt insisted that they always be referred to as the Reichsautobahns, never simply
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Disney World". Seifert went so far as to write in 1941 that the rest stops should reflect their locations "not only in material and form, but also in their interiors, their dishware, their decorations ... right up to the check and the music". However, the Alpine style tended to predominate.
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Both the hilltop rest stop at the Irschenberg and the rest stop at the Chiemsee were in accordance with general practice on the Reichsautobahn: the highway detoured from the direct route to provide access to cultural sights and views, and rest stops and filling stations were constructed at these
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wrote in 1937, the autobahns, despite their magnitude, were "rather flat". Photomontages attempted to impress upon the public the sheer volume of earth moved and materials used to build them, but the primary means of demonstrating the monumentality of the achievement were bridges and sculpture.
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It was once common to consider military applications as having been the true main reason the Nazis constructed autobahns, but historians now generally agree that this was an exaggeration. Foreigners suggested a covert military purpose for the Reichsautobahns as early as 1934, but a 1946 British
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and a Nazi Party member, wrote several pieces beginning in fall 1933 in which he contested Todt's report, with respect to strategic applications pointing out that road vehicles had less than a third of the weight capacity of railroad freight wagons, in addition to which the steel wheel-rims and
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and Nazi reduction of unemployment in general and emphasized the project's role. This included misleading graphs and exaggerated statistics. For the first two years of construction, mechanization was avoided so far as possible in order to create more work (although lack of machinery was also a
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that housed recalcitrant workers on the autobahn as well as the Westwall; in all, 50 forced labor camps were established for Reichsautobahn workers, and transferred to regular SS use when construction stopped. In fall 1940, an internal report counted approximately 62,600 workers engaged on the
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at Finowfurth near Berlin, for example. A monument in the highway median at Unterhaching later commemorated the event: it took the form of a cylinder inscribed with Hitler's command and the date and surmounted by shovels in the manner of weapons on a military monument. 15,000 workers were now
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All advertising was banned on the Reichsautobahn. Instead of advertising signs, noticeboards to be used to alert drivers to telephone messages were placed on the median near exits. The Reichsautobahn and its innkeeping subsidiary retained all commercial rights in a strip extending 500 m
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Nonetheless, the first completed segments were based on the HAFRABA plans and thus consisted of straightaways 4 to 5 km (2.5 to 3.1 mi) long joined by curves that were arcs of circles, as in railroads; the minimum radius of the curves was defined in planning documents (2,000 m
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to the south. A rest stop was located there. (The Irschenberg autobahn segment was one of those that limited the usefulness of the highways for freight transport, and with the increase in traffic after the war it became a notorious bottleneck and accident site. Many such segments have been
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designed two. Beginning in 1936–37, they were relocated to the side of the road where there was more space, and developed from purely utilitarian service stations into rest stops with overnight accommodation intended to be attractive to the driver. Both the rest stops and the less visible
250:, in addition to plans for networks totaling 15,000 km (9,300 mi) or 22,500 km (14,000 mi) in length. In 1930 the Ministry of Transportation became involved in trying to establish guidelines for the building of a highway network. Most notably, the organization known as
365:(in charge of construction) and of Todt's office (in charge of planning but also of all roads in the Reich) exemplified the growth of central authorities in the Third Reich and inevitably led to conflicts, but only on 1 January 1941 was the Gesellschaft Reichsautobahnen removed from the
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The Reichsautobahn was initially to be financed by a road use tax, but in 1936 this was rejected and instead fuel taxes were raised and car owners taxed. In addition, the Reichsbahn and the national bank provided loans. However, approximately 60% of the financing came from the
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The relatively few large bridges were major design statements; Todt wrote in 1937 that they "should not be for 1940, nor yet for 2000, but ... should extend their dominating presence, like the cathedrals of our past, into future millennia." The first of these was the
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Because it had no intersections, the autobahn required a huge number of bridges and underpasses. These were initially purely utilitarian in design, but after inspecting the first completed stretch, Todt sought to give them a more unified and aesthetic appearance.
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observed, "Germany has the roads while we have the traffic." Car ownership was a "powerful public desire". Motoring and the use of the autobahn for outings were heavily promoted. German manufacturers produced touring buses for the non-car-owning public, and the
1702:. After the Second World War, a different route was chosen. There are almost a dozen unfinished structures on the old route, most of them in the forest. In Rupboden, a district road crosses under the overgrown route, which is still clearly visible today. Near
706:, president of the Interior Ministry, commented that the Germans' methods were "un-Christian and inhumane" and Slovakia would have to find another way. The visitors understood that Jews in Poland lived under conditions that would eventually cause mass death.
271:, who had been inspired by the Italian highways, and projected a north–south highway to be expanded into a network. Detailed engineering specifications were prepared, bound in 70 volumes, and this planning would form the basis of the Reichsautobahn network.
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287:, the German national railroad, which feared highways would take some of its freight business. Even the association of German car manufacturers did not support highway projects; they were concerned that long-distance driving would overtax their vehicles.
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After the war, with the exception of the parkway aesthetic, the Reichsautobahn became the model for highways in other countries, and the practical experience gained—in logistics, mechanized construction, and bridge-building—was also used by others.
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and by rearmament and war; there was also a near failure of a continuously welded bridge, which had to be quietly reinforced and led to mistrust of steel construction. Many later bridges had a reinforced concrete core clad in stonework or brick.
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were designed to reflect local architecture, to guard against the danger of the autobahn acting as a homogenizing influence. So, for example, the Chiemsee rest stop took the form of an Alpine chalet. The result has been described as "a kind of
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resigned on 22 December 1934; the editor of the HAFRABA magazine, Kurt Kaftan, had caused a political problem by presenting Hof as the originator of the idea, or jointly responsible for it with Hitler. The overlapping responsibilities of the
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that spanned the valley on two double pylons of reinforced concrete. Built in 1934–36, this served as the model for several subsequent autobahn bridges, and a model of one of the huge pylons dominated the Reichsautobahn exhibit at the
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However, Shand, p. 191, states that by 1936 direct employment on Reichsautobahn construction was 130,000, plus 270,000 in ancillary occupations such as materials, and credits the project with significant contributions to alleviating
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using prisoners of war, but it was not completed and officially opened until 1921. This was originally intended as a race track and was used for testing vehicles and road surfaces, but it had many of the characteristics of the later
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for Slovakia, invited Slovak government officials to tour several Reichsautobahn camps in Upper East Silesia. During the trip, the Reichsautobahn made inquiries about the use of Slovak Jews on its construction projects. However,
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A purpose for the project that increasingly came to the fore was to unify Germany, by enabling Germans to explore it and appreciate its beauty; including the new territories that had been added to the Reich under the Nazis;
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on 11 February, Hitler presented it as a necessity and as the future measure of a people, as railroads had been in the past. A law establishing the Reichsautobahn project under that name was passed on 27 June 1933, and the
1174:(counsel for the landscape) was appointed in each construction district to ensure minimum harm, and in 1935 Hitler temporarily stopped work on the Berlin - Munich autobahn near Bayreuth because of harm to the landscape.
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executed and exhibited in 1938–39 the model for a gigantic monument to Reichsautobahn workers, 17 m (56 ft) high, consisting of three naked workers straining to move a boulder up a slope in a manner recalling
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would have been naturally present at the site, but at the end of 1936, as a result of cost overruns as well as his personal philosophy, Todt severely curtailed plantings, calling for an emphasis on open views.
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on the autobahn from Munich to the Austrian border, where instead of passing through the valley, the highway was routed in a curving path up the hill to the summit, from which there was a full view of the
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housed in barracks, barns, industrial buildings, and tents, and complained about the work, the conditions, and the pay. On 18 October 1934, the workers on the Hamburg-Bremen segment of the autobahn at
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Another reason was the unacceptably high accident rate after the regime initially suspended all speed limits with the introduction of the unified Reich Highway Code in 1934: Bernhard Rieger,
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Mitigating damage to the environment was a concern, as part of creating an authentic experience of the landscape, which was to unroll like a movie from the motorist's perspective. The
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Der Kampf um die Autobahnen. Geschichte und Entwicklung des Autobahngedankens in Deutschland von 1907–1935 unter Berücksichtigung ähnlicher Pläne und Bestrebungen im übrigen Europa
563:, that foreign visitors would see the necessary armed guards and form a bad impression; previously they had been used only at remote locations such as quarries. In October 1939 an
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were bombed. As the war progressed, vehicles were at risk of strafing by Allied aircraft. However, most damage to the autobahns was caused late in the war by the retreating
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autobahn, of whom approximately 21,900 were contract workers, 300 women, 28,600 prisoners including prisoners of war, 1,100 Poles, 5,700 Czechs, and 4,700 other foreigners.
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engaged; however, at several of the work sites, the men were immediately sent home because mechanized excavations and other preparation had to be done first. According to a
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From the 1950s through the 1970s there was a broad-based movement in West Germany to remove trees from beside the autobahns as a danger, greatly changing their appearance.
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Preparatory work at several sites was done over the following winter, but full-scale construction officially began on 21 March 1934, as the showpiece of the opening of the
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Angela Schumacher, "'Vor uns die endlosen StraĂźen, vor uns die lockende, erregende Ferne ...': 'Vom Tanken und Rasten auf Entdeckerfahrt durch deutsche Lande'", in:
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than official traffic, which picked up toward the end of the war, the autobahns were used for some deliveries of tank parts and finished U-boats and motor-boats, and as
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encircling Cologne, which was more in accord with demand at the time. According to a 1936–37 traffic survey, the highest road traffic was still around the major cities.
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Kurt H. Lang and Rainer Stommer, "'Deutsche KĂĽnstler—an die Front des StraĂźenbaues!': Fallstudie zur nationalsozialistischen Bildgattung 'Autobahnmalerei'", in
1667:. This route was based on the planning of the HaFraBa association. However, the route between Hamburg and Hanover was not continued after the war as planned between
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and 700 on a 7 km (4.3 mi) stretch between Munich and the border were actually active. GEZUVOR presented its 788 volumes of plans to Todt on 1 June 1934.
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described them as "needlessly grandiose but most impressive. Efficiently made and more efficiently managed, they somehow reduce the individual to insignificance."
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Motorway exit signpost (traced). The hand-painted panels made of wood and plywood had the basic color of blue shade RAL 32 h. This corresponds to today's RAL 5002.
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straightened and in some cases the highway has been relocated.) In 1936 Otto Illauer's view of this stretch of highway won first prize in the photography contest
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from earlier in the same year includes chase scenes on the autobahn, and some 50 short films were made about the project, including both technical films such as
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workers, and during the war increasing numbers of prisoners of war were used. The war also removed the main obstacle to using prison inmates and Jews from the
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798:, on the inner German border, was not replaced until the 1960s. The debris of the destroyed bridges still lies below the rebuilt series of viaducts at the
1902:, ed. Hans-Liudger Dienel and Hans-Ulrich Schiedt, Beiträge zur Historischen Verkehrsforschung des Deutschen Museums 11, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2010,
107:, and work officially began simultaneously at multiple sites throughout the Reich the following spring. The first finished stretch, between Frankfurt and
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in September 1941. Some crossing bridges are still in use today. In the 1950s, this motorway was completed and has been part of the European Route 47 (
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in 1938 resulted in an extension of the previously Vienna-centered road system and major planning and construction efforts in the Alpine regions. The
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and the northern Italian lakes, the first true motorway in the world. In 1929–32, a highway some 20 km (12 mi) long that also resembled the
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to study them, about the same time that the Westchester County Parks Commission (WCPC) was partly overseeing the construction of what is today the
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Reduction of unemployment was presented as the main reason for the Reichsautobahn project, and propaganda both used the autobahn to represent the
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Erhard SchĂĽtz. "'Verankert fest im Kern des Bluts': Die Reichsautobahn—mediale Visionen einer organischen Moderne im 'Dritten Reich'". In:
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realized the benefits of the Reichsautobahn during his time as an officer in the US Army, and as president, used those ideas to bring about the
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as much as possible, to no more than 8%, and curves were to fall within a range of 600 m (660 yd) and 1,800 m (2,000 yd) in
344:(Inspector-General for the German Road System) on 30 June. HAFRABA and other organizations were folded into the planning arm, known as GEZUVOR (
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were used as autobahn workers, mostly doing simple hard labor, in November 1937, women and school-age children were put to work at a site in
4167:"'Jene blaßgrauen Bänder' oder 'Anmut, Härte und Zielstrebigkeit'. Die Reichsautobahn in Literatur und anderen Medien des 'Dritten Reiches'"
1896:"Vorauseilende Angebotsplanung und Raumerschließung: Die Vor- und Frühgeschichte der österreichischen Autobahnen im internationalen Kontext"
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However, with the bridges the shift was never as complete as it was in other aspects of Reichsautobahn architecture: in 1940–41, along the
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between Vienna and Salzburg was started within weeks with much publicity, but only a few kilometers around Salzburg were finished by 1942.
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The Reichsautobahn was also prominently represented in the 1937 exhibition celebrating the first four years of the regime's achievements,
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visited Hitler partly to discuss the autobahns, and returned home calling him a "great man". But they were also regarded as inhumane.
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In 1936 the tax on a liter of gasoline was 40 pfennigs, approximately half the hourly wage of a skilled worker - Matzke, p. 52.
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7.5 m (25 ft) high by Kurt Lehmann depicting a "worker of the fist" and a "worker of the brow" on the HedemĂĽnden bridge.
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project: to negotiate the steep terrain with minimum disturbance, the two directions were routed on different sides of the mountain
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Hitler shoveling dirt at the ceremonial inauguration of Reichsautobahn construction on 23 September 1933; behind him on the right
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described their version of the parkway design as "a horrid clash of nature and technics." In his critical book on Nazi Germany,
1489:(newsreel) formed part of theater programs. The autobahns also gave rise to several novels and a considerable amount of poetry.
4014:. pp. 231–66. Slightly modified as "Faszination der blaßgrauen Bänder. Zur 'organischen' Technik der Reichsautobahn". In:
378:("We are Building a Road"), was broadcast throughout the Reich. On 23 September 1933, the first 720 unemployed marched to the
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was therefore relatively narrow; trees were retained close to the highway and sometimes, for example in the oak forest near
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Hansjoachim Henning. "Kraftfahrzeugindustrie und Autobahnbau in der Wirtschaftspolitik des Nationalsozialismus 1933–1936".
3279:, pp. 736-7 (in German), quoted in SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 101; quoted in translation in Schivelbusch, p. 175.
260:- Association for the preparation of the motorway Hamburg – Frankfurt – Basel), was founded in 1926 at the instigation of
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also stressed military uses. The military disagreed. Georg Halter, professor of road construction and railroads at the
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went on strike; the 141 who could not be talked into resuming work were transported to Berlin for interrogation by the
2467:"Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": Das Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS und die rassenpolitische Neuordnung Europas
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were all being planned in 1940–41. Ground was broken by Todt himself on 14 September 1941, for the autobahn between
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the Reich in 1933. Some stretches were only completed in one direction; in some low-traffic areas, particularly in
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Max K. Schwarz. "Tankstellen, StraĂźenmeistereien und Raststätten—Betriebsorganismen an der Reichsautobahn".
111:, opened on 19 May 1935, and the first 1,000 km (620 mi) were completed on 23 September 1936. After the
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in the conquered territories; along with a trio of eastward and southward extensions of the extreme broad-gauge
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After the war, the Reichsautobahns were declared national property of the various post-war states (for example
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Autobahn view with two Volkswagens: propaganda photo celebrating 10 years of Nazi achievements, January 1943
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Maier-Dorn, "Die kulturelle Bedeutung der Reichsautobahn", p. 736, quoted in SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 94.
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Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945
1425:(Give Me Four Years, a slogan of Hitler's). In addition, Todt commissioned official artists, particularly
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3177:, ed. Brigitta Villaronga-Walker, Denkanstöße 1, Mainz: Stiftung Natur und Umwelt Rheinland-Pfalz, 2004,
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Workers employed directly in Reichsautobahn construction per quarter, December 1933 through December 1936
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Rainer Stommer, "Triumph der Technik: AutobahnbrĂĽcken zwischen Ingenieuraufgabe und Kulturdenkmal", in:
3393:, ed. Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press / Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008,
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report in April–May 1934, only 6,000 workers on a 67 km (42 mi) stretch between Frankfurt and
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and following pages: history of Reichsautobahn construction, with period illustrations and photographs
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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933–1939
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stated that the autobahns were uniform in design to express the unity of the Reich. In 1933 Todt hired
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starting in 1913. The corporation to build it was organized in 1909, and construction continued during
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Two controlled-access highways had been built prior to the Nazi era. The 10 km (6.2 mi) long
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Zur Geschichte der Autobahn: Die Rolle der Autobahn—Ansichten und Einsichten: gestern und heute
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in his memoirs concerning the Nazi government "taking the plans that we had prepared out of drawer".
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Bridges sometimes constituted dramatic gateways in themselves, such as the "Gateway of Thuringia" at
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Schütz and Gruber, particularly pp. 36–37, quoting Kurt Kaftan saying exactly that in 1935; Zeller,
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of various kinds. Several times, up to 1,400 youths fulfilling their obligation to work through the
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Motorisierung und "Volksgemeinschaft": Das Nationalsozialistische Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK), 1931–1945
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Barbara Hutzelmann, "EinfĂĽhrung: Slowakei", in: Barbara Hutzelmann and Mariana Hausleitner, eds.,
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concrete. There were no shoulders. In addition to having no intersections, the route was to limit
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1347:) at the Chiemsee rest stop on September 15, 1938, returning from his meeting with Hitler at the
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684:, who succeeded Todt after his death, folded the Reichsautobahn completely into the war-oriented
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350:, Society for the Preparation of the Reichsautobahn). The Chairman of the Board of HAFRABA, Dr.
4254:, Third Reich in Ruins: views of Reichsautobahn bridges, unfinished work, and a service station
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form, for example the series at the Drackensteiner Hang by Paul Bonatz and the bridge over the
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4183:, Working Papers in the History of Mobility 3/2001, revised 15 February 2008, archived at the
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Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs. Analysen zur Ästhetik eines unbewältigten Mythos
3849:, "Roadside Plantings on Hitler's Highways: An Inquiry from Germany and an American Answer",
3211:, pp. 129–31, and Fig. 6.1 showing an aerial view of the Frankfurt - Darmstadt autobahn.
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troops the width of the Reich in two nights. A second memorandum written six months later by
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On the importance Hitler assigned to motorization, including a July 1933 interview with the
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After the Nazis came to power at the end of January 1933, their position changed rapidly.
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3645:"The Will to Motorization: Cinema, Highways, and Modernity: For Wolf Donner, in Memoriam"
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1467:(From the Forest to the Road Surface, 1937) and shorts for popular consumption such as
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Arbeitsschlacht: fünf Jahre Malfahrten auf den Bauplätzen der "Strassen Adolf Hitlers"
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The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe
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4218:"Vom Bau der Reichsautobahn MĂĽnchen - Landesgrenze, heutige A8, Inbetriebnahme 1938"
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1483:(cultural films), which were shown at Party and club meetings and together with the
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Debris from the original Drachenloch Bridge below the reconstructed bridge, at the
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Richard J. Overy. "Cars, Roads, and Economic Recovery in Germany, 1932–1938". In:
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high-speed section, which expressed its high-tech purpose and also alluded to the
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4006:. Ed. Hartmut Eggert, Erhard SchĂĽtz, and Peter Sprengel. Munich: Iudicium, 1995.
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Hitler performed the first ceremonial shoveling of dirt on 23 September 1933, at
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of "all military, transportation, news, industrial, and provisions facilities".
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rail system, the highways were intended to provide the main connections for the
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Nazi Party was against public spending on highways for this reason, as were the
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Corporations were also formed and plans drawn up for motorized highways between
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Mythos Reichsautobahn: Bau und Inszenierung der 'Straßen des Führers' 1933–1941
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Karte 1:100.000 Sheet N.4 HANNOVER, British War Office and Air Ministry, 1955.
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network as it was ultimately conceived was to extend into most of the planned
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4181:"Die Autobahn als Infrastruktur und die Autobahnbau 1933–1943 in Deutschland"
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Why President Dwight D. Eisenhower Understood We Needed the Interstate System
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points to facilitate leaving the car to appreciate them. For example, at the
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Raum-Maschine Reichsautobahn: zur Dynamik eines bekannt/unbekannten Bauwerks
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Die moderne StraĂźe: Planung, Bau und Verkehr vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
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of roughly 10 km in length was designed for speed record attempts (the
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1836:, ed. Rainer Stommer with Claudia Gabriele Philipp, Marburg: Jonas, 1982,
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of history, must stand like a duke in the parade of human achievements."
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on the Berlin ring road so that they would correctly embody the autobahn.
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great builders of ancient times. These included the Holledau Bridge by
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Thomas Kunze and Rainer Stommer, "Geschichte der Reichsautobahn", in:
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in 1949) and became the foundation of the modern autobahn networks in
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Faszination des Organischen: Konjunkturen einer Kategorie der Moderne
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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According to SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 91, 3,819 km (2,373 mi).
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for a projected "transit autobahn" from Breslau to Vienna via BrĂĽnn (
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Internationales Archiv fĂĽr Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur
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Timothy Davis, "The Rise and Decline of the American Parkway", in:
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James D. Shand, "The Reichsautobahn: Symbol for the Third Reich",
4018:. Ed. Wolfgang Emmerich and Carl Wege. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1995.
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SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 43; full passage, Kunze and Stommer, p. 44.
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Reichsanstalt fĂĽr Arbeitsvermittlung und Arbeitslosenversicherung
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The network as planned had three east–west highways (between the
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on the Berlin-Stettin autobahn that was opened in December 1934.
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Emil Maier-Dorn, "Die kulturelle Bedeutung der Reichsautobahn",
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Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970
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and production cability for the KdF-Wagen instead went into the
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4.21, 1937, 1–3, p. 3, quoted in Schütz and Gruber, p. 93.
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2629:"Wiederaufbau der zerstörten Autobahnbrücke bei Sachsenvorwerk"
2571:, Cambridge, Massachusetts / London: Harvard University, 2013,
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Schütz and Gruber. pp. 29-31, 35; also pp. 14–15, quoting
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1440:, to depict the construction of the autobahns in heroic terms.
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Autobahnbau in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945: zu den HintergrĂĽnden
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issues, calendars, board games, etc., and a major exhibition,
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The showpiece aesthetic stretch of the Reichsautobahn was the
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Verein zur Vorbereitung der Autostraße Hamburg–Frankfurt–Basel
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may also have intended veiled criticism when he wrote in the
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and Berlin via Hanover, between the Southwest and Munich via
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communities to be located in conquered Soviet territory. The
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reprinted for his planners' use, and Nazi designers visited
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18.2, 1993, pp. 76–120, online at IASL online archive
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30, July 1940, pp. 179–82, and "The Nazi Autobahnen",
3080:, Studien zur Zeitgeschichte 68, Munich: Oldenbourg, 2005,
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The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle
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1987:
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near Prague, meant to be part of a Reichsautobahn to Prague
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1447:(Vehicles and Roads Throughout Time; scripted in 1934) and
1398:"autobahns", and sought to eliminate use of the rival term
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880:) in 2006; this segment has since been upgraded as part of
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2710:"'Die Straßen Adolf Hitlers' - Reichsautobahnen 1933–1941"
2146:"Denkmäler an der Autobahn—die Autobahn als Denkmal"
3991:. Oxford: Clarendon / New York: Oxford University, 1994.
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On the motorization objective, see also Rieger, pp.48–50.
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Vierteljahrschrift fĂĽr Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
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35, July 1945, p. 157, quoted in Davis, p. 43.
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SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 63, describing it as four figures.
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1972:
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produced a report arguing for the building of highways,
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of Cologne and chairman of the provincial committee for
133:, 3,819.7 km (2,373.5 mi) had been completed.
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Autobahnbau in Deutschland: Vorgeschichte und Baubeginn
4053:. Kaleidogramme 2. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2005.
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in Denmark, now part of Sydmotorvejen (European Routes
435:, Hitler made a short speech ending with the command, "
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using unemployed labor; on the basis of this, the then
92:'s own idea. They were termed "Adolf Hitler's roads" ("
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SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 68-69, quoting a report by the
2152:, pp. 154–92, pp. 154, with photograph, 159.
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Photograph, Dieter Mayer-GĂĽrr, "Autobahnruinen", in:
1479:(Four Hundred Build a Bridge, 1937). These last were
156:– automobile traffic and practice road) was built in
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on 7 April 1938. When work ceased in 1941 because of
121:", and a second soil-breaking ceremony for the first
3237:, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999,
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Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling
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762:, notably the unfinished highway between Berlin and
4195:"Reichsautobahn—Ă„sthetik und Zweckbestimmung"
3878:, p. 240, quoted in Schivelbusch, p. 181.
2903:, Stanford, California: Stanford University, 2004,
2720:, there were to have been three diagonals: between
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1529:aircraft company that was headquartered in Dessau.
115:, the planned network was expanded to include the "
3639:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 103, 109, 118–20; Zeller,
2391:, 1936, quoted fully at Kunze and Stommer, p. 34.
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1581:designed a huge imitation Roman viaduct for the
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625:Reichsautobahn work site near Berlin, April 1936
347:Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung der Reichsautobahn
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3301:Zeller, "The Landscape's Crown", pp. 224, 226.
2469:, Moderne Zeit 2, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003,
758:. Several stretches were no longer within the
667:warplanes concealed along the autobahn in 1945
341:Generalinspektor fĂĽr das deutsche StraĂźenwesen
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1228:travelers could stop to see and admire them.
1112:, the military version for all the branches (
748:Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
4258:Documents and clippings about Reichsautobahn
3615:Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs
3592:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 105,108–09, 112, 114.
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1953:
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1601:, a stone bridge was under construction at
4137:Fritz Todt, "Zum Bau der Reichsautobahnen"
3604:
1451:(The Great Road; to have been directed by
1445:Fahrzeuge und StraĂźen im Wandel der Zeiten
1197:Die schöne Straße in Bau und unter Verkehr
4034:Reichsautobahn: Schönheit, Natur, Technik
2690:
1890:
1888:
1886:
1884:
770:, Russia), now known unofficially as the
545:, and soon after, 17 and 18-year-olds in
4016:Der Technikdiskurs der Hitler-Stalin-Ă„ra
3419:Zeller, "The Landscape's Crown", p. 229.
3032:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 12, 20-21, 88-90.
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934:) and had six lanes in each direction.
474:near Salzburg, and on 1 December 1938,
4286:Science and technology in Nazi Germany
4273:
3905:
3805:"Die vergessene Autobahn bei Hannover"
1881:
1392:
1380:Model of autobahn gateway designed by
1371:
1075:Motorization and military applications
913:Technical specifications and financing
460:a three-axle Mercedes-Benz touring car
458:was opened. Hitler rewarded Todt with
3802:
2949:, New York: Holt-Metropolitan, 2006,
2899:, see Eric Michaud, tr. Janet Lloyd,
2161:Photograph, SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 48.
1128:armed forces. Mass production of the
778:between the Federal Republic and the
303:, on the left two workers helping him
2648:Photographs, Mayer-Gürr, pp. 144–45.
1654:
1219:who had fallen there in 1921 at the
872:" Berlin - Königsberg autobahn near
153:Automobil-Verkehrs- und ĂśbungsstraĂźe
68:. There had been previous plans for
3171:"Welche Natur wollen wir schĂĽtzen?"
3140:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 62, 99, 134.
1961:, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2007,
1558:(1937–38) and the bridges over the
786:became the access road to the U.S.
13:
3989:War and Economy in the Third Reich
3010:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 12; Zeller,
2983:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 54, 143–45.
2743:Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
2446:The Establishment of the New Order
2409:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 58, 81, 84.
2292:Kunze and Stommer, p. 35, quoting
2274:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 68, 70, 72.
1957:Thomas Zeller, tr. Thomas Dunlap,
1807:Erhard SchĂĽtz and Eckhard Gruber,
1622:, by Bonatz and Gottwalt Schaper.
1436:, and photographers, particularly
732:ordered the destruction in retreat
14:
4297:
4130:
3643:, p. 63; Edward Dimendberg,
3401:, pp. 35–58, pp. 42–43.
3113:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 82, 89–90.
2970:, pp. 77–90, pp. 86–87
2732:(now Gliwice, Poland) and Aachen.
2431:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 84, 86–87.
2400:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 50–51, 52.
2135:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 11, 46–48.
1493:Bridges, the autobahn's monuments
4222:StraĂźenbauer und StraĂźenbenutzer
3920:. Berlin: Zeitgeschichte, 1938.
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2531:Slowakei, Rumänien und Bulgarien
1459:(Man for Man), Harald Paulsen's
1359:
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928:One segment just south of Dessau
888:
861:
838:
819:
649:Bunk room in workers' camp, 1934
642:
630:
618:
607:addition of Austria to the Reich
408:November 1933 Reichstag election
371:and placed directly under Todt.
314:StraĂźenbau und StraĂźenverwaltung
60:system was the beginning of the
3803:Grube, Michael (19 June 2007).
3712:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 95, 103.
3690:, "Der Sinn des neuen Bauens",
3678:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 99, 101.
3327:, pp. 91–110, p. 117
3245:, pp. 218–38, p. 224.
3035:
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2901:The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany
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1777:Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
1384:for the Austrian frontier near
654:
567:re-education camp was built at
317:, known as the "Brown Report" (
3828:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 59, 60.
3660:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 109–12.
3380:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 130-32.
3340:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 115–17.
1935:
1926:
1917:
1863:
1826:
1801:
1725:, Vogelfluglinie) since 1963.
1611:ultra-modern suspension bridge
1541:, a girder bridge designed by
1142:Technical University of Munich
1:
4199:Humboldt University of Berlin
3703:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 97–98.
3617:, pp. 49–76, p. 61
2933:, p. 52, note 15, p. 73.
2866:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 38–39.
2838:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 58–60.
2820:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 56-58.
2762:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 86–87.
2549:, pp. 18–45, p. 30.
2520:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 90–91.
2305:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 76–77.
2283:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 74–76.
2191:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 49–51.
2170:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, pp. 48-49.
2117:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 43–44.
2034:Kunze and Stommer, pp. 25–26.
2025:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 16–17.
2016:Kunze and Stommer, pp. 26–27.
1932:Kunze and Stommer, pp. 24–25.
1923:Kunze and Stommer, pp. 23–24.
1860:Schütz and Gruber, pp. 32–33.
1844:, pp. 22–47, p. 22
1795:
1761:car inexorably into itself."
1625:
1477:Vierhundert bauen eine BrĂĽcke
1322:Rudolphstein, Upper Franconia
1152:
1053:
1048:
549:. Eventually, the inmates of
398:of Hesse, to the bank of the
386:men, marched behind Todt and
362:Gesellschaft Reichsautobahnen
335:Gesellschaft Reichsautobahnen
141:
88:and presented the project as
3531:, New York: Penguin, 2008,
3410:Schivelbusch, pp. 176, 178.
2745:, London: Hutchinson, 2002,
2716:, October 2008, p. 55,
1728:
1711:German occupation of Denmark
876:in Poland (formerly Elbing,
782:. A stretch of highway near
7:
4262:20th Century Press Archives
4220:, text by Friedrich Doll,
4139:, 1933 filmed presentation
4091:Highways to the Third Reich
3868:The House That Hitler Built
3067:Schivelbusch, pp. 171, 176.
3058:, p. 56 and note 25, p. 74.
1782:
1744:The House That Hitler Built
1504:in 1936, the year it opened
895:Reichsautobahn bridge near
737:
254:or HAFRABA (an acronym for
10:
4302:
4077:. Germany, 1985. 92 mins.
3947:. Berlin: Wigankow, 1955.
3870:, New York: Harper, 1938,
3757:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 100.
3513:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 134.
3441:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 105.
3175:Welche Natur schĂĽtzen wir?
2920:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 142.
2699:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 101.
2448:, New York: Norton, 1974,
1443:Full-length movies called
780:German Democratic Republic
712:runways for fighter planes
327:), and in a speech at the
246:, and between Cologne and
171:and served as a model for
136:
70:controlled-access highways
4224:(1935). 19 February 2005
4151:, at Landkartenarchiv.de
3887:Schivelbusch, pp. 179–82.
3847:Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
3669:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 95.
3583:See also Michaud, p. 213.
3504:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 99.
2884:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 14.
2875:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 57.
2847:Kunze and Stommer, p. 28.
2829:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 67.
2771:Matzke, p. 57 and n. 111.
2687:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 97.
2606:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 93.
2597:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 92.
2588:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 91.
2511:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 65.
2502:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 64.
2378:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 81.
2369:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 80.
2360:Kunze and Stommer, p. 29.
2314:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 78.
2265:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 82.
2256:Kunze and Stommer, p. 31.
2221:Kunze and Stommer, p. 30.
2209:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 12.
2200:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 61.
2182:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 56.
2126:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 45.
2099:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 40.
2077:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 18.
2055:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 33.
2046:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 37.
2007:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 11.
1993:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 34.
1981:Kunze and Stommer, p. 25.
1878:Kunze and Stommer, p. 24.
1869:SchĂĽtz and Gruber, p. 51.
1773:Interstate Highway System
1740:Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
1465:Vom Wald zur StraĂźendecke
1132:started only after 1945.
291:Planning and construction
189:except for the lack of a
3910:
3601:Lang and Stommer, p. 97.
3539:, pp. 45–46, 59–60.
2728:and between Hamburg and
1775:in the U.S. through the
1605:and at the same time at
1548:Gebt mir vier Jahre Zeit
1423:Gebt mir vier Jahre Zeit
1285:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
981:via Luxembourg, between
973:, and autobahns between
380:Frankfurt Stock Exchange
4067:
3866:Stephen Henry Roberts,
2945:, tr. Jefferson Chase,
1811:, Berlin: Links, 1996,
1168:Reichslandschaftsanwalt
989:in Norway, and between
949:region and Breslau via
945:, and between the Main-
718:after the factories in
674:ring road around Berlin
4187:13 August 2011 (pdf),
4109:Tatsachen und Legenden
4089:Subtitled in English,
3855:Landscape Architecture
3851:Landscape Architecture
3495:Schumacher, pp. 80–83.
3477:Schumacher, pp. 78–80.
3450:Schumacher, pp. 88–89.
3314:, p. 138 and Fig. 6.2.
3156:13, quoted in Spotts,
3154:Neue deutsche Baukunst
3076:Dorothee Hochstetter,
2558:Hutzelmann, pp. 30–31.
1709:Route 145. During the
1505:
1389:
1345:Joachim von Ribbentrop
1084:
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851:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
760:redrawn German borders
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4252:Miscellaneous sites 2
4158:Autobahngeschichte.de
4113:SĂĽddeutscher Rundfunk
4049:Benjamin Steininger.
4036:. Kiel: Arndt, 2001.
3486:Spotts, pp. 319, 392.
3122:Michaud, pp. 17, 203.
2992:Schivelbusch, p. 172.
2943:Wolfgang Schivelbusch
1748:Stephen Henry Roberts
1564:Hirschberg, Thuringia
1500:
1438:Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
1379:
1318:Hirschberg, Thuringia
1253:Taconic State Parkway
1082:
1061:
716:Messerschmitt Me 262s
662:
416:
376:Wir bauen eine StraĂźe
298:
238:, between Munich and
113:annexation of Austria
98:StraĂźen Adolf Hitlers
44:
24:
4281:Autobahns in Germany
4238:: then and now views
4209:Die Reichsautobahnen
4179:Richard Vahrenkamp,
2714:University of Vienna
1769:Dwight D. Eisenhower
1523:Dessauer Rennstrecke
1461:Stimme aus dem Ă„ther
1245:Roadside Improvement
1103:Strength Through Joy
1029:, this was planned.
932:Dessauer Rennstrecke
812:German reunification
599:of German immigrant
597:"settlement strings"
84:embraced them after
4147:Reichsautobahnatlas
4103:Hermann G. Abmayr.
3906:Further information
3809:geschichtsspuren.de
3775:Lurz, pp. 161, 162.
3748:Lurz, pp. 163, 164.
3739:Stommer, pp. 70–71.
3023:Spotts, pp. 394–95.
1910:, pp. 194–202
1757:Frankfurter Zeitung
1717:to Majbølle on the
1393:Autobahn propaganda
1372:Monumental function
1341:Herbert von Dirksen
1337:Neville Chamberlain
828:Drackensteiner Hang
800:Drackensteiner Hang
776:inner German border
561:concentration camps
537:Reichsarbeitsdienst
419:Drackensteiner Hang
4193:Grigorios Petsos,
4073:Hartmut Bitomsky.
4026:. pp. 123–45
3459:Schumacher, p. 88.
3362:Schumacher, p. 83.
3104:Shand, pp. 196–97.
2465:Isabel Heinemann,
2342:German Labor Front
2327:19.2 (April 1984)
1736:David Lloyd George
1543:German Bestelmeyer
1506:
1390:
1290:StraĂźenmeistereien
1277:StraĂźenmeistereien
1261:Blue Ridge Parkway
1249:Westchester County
1221:Battle of Annaberg
1124:) of the combined
1085:
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669:
637:A workers' barrack
551:re-education camps
521:Kraft durch Freude
423:
320:Braune Denkschrift
305:
193:was built between
50:
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4216:Volker Wichmann,
4207:Volker Wichmann,
4197:, seminar paper,
4032:Arend Vosselman.
3981:65 (1978) 217–42
3399:978-0-8214-1767-6
3371:Lurz, pp. 169–70.
3185:, pp. 52–65
3169:Hansjörg Küster,
2741:Frederic Spotts,
2633:Bundesgrenzschutz
2579:, pp. 51–56.
2543:978-3-11-036500-9
2442:Hitler's War Aims
1967:978-1-84545-309-1
1681:Bundesautobahn A2
1675:, eastwards past
1655:Unfinished routes
1453:Robert A. Stemmle
1339:(center, between
1172:Landschaftsanwalt
1097:(then called the
788:Ramstein Air Base
686:Organisation Todt
404:Heinrich Hoffmann
394:Reichsstatthalter
329:Berlin Motor Show
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4185:Internet Archive
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4093:. Big Sky Film.
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1510:Ernst Bloch
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1039:Reichsmarks
768:Kaliningrad
704:Izidor Koso
476:Rudolf Hess
468:Sudetenland
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162:World War I
150:(short for
4275:Categories
4201:, 1995/96
3935:Die StraĂźe
3692:Die StraĂźe
3688:Fritz Todt
3523:Adam Tooze
3269:Die StraĂźe
3158:p. 99
2671:Structurae
2389:Die StraĂźe
2294:Die StraĂźe
1796:References
1704:Gräfendorf
1640:bas relief
1626:Sculptures
1618:valley at
1587:HedemĂĽnden
1585:valley at
1570:; in 1938
1469:Bahn Frei!
1416:Die StraĂźe
1283:architect
1273:Michendorf
1225:Thingspiel
1153:Aesthetics
1109:KĂĽbelwagen
1095:Volkswagen
1054:Employment
1049:Objectives
1015:Copenhagen
764:Königsberg
724:Regensburg
680:. In 1942
584:Lebensraum
452:Heidelberg
438:Fanget an!
368:Reichsbahn
309:Fritz Todt
301:Fritz Todt
283:Reichsbahn
277:Communists
230:, between
228:Heidelberg
203:Lord Mayor
177:autostrada
142:Background
76:under the
48:car plaque
29:, today's
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3292:, p. 135.
3224:, p. 134.
3090:p. 8
2811:, p. 238.
2444:Volume 2
1729:Influence
1715:Rødbyhavn
1694:Route 46
1677:Negenborn
1659:Route 24
1636:Eisenberg
1217:Freikorps
1126:Wehrmacht
1122:Luftwaffe
1099:KdF-Wagen
1023:Thuringia
1007:Leningrad
991:Yaroslavl
987:Trondheim
963:Nuremberg
943:Stuttgart
728:Wehrmacht
602:Wehrbauer
516:Werbellin
511:BaustĂĽrme
262:Willy Hof
217:ring road
109:Darmstadt
105:Frankfurt
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3561:Zeller,
3552:, p. 62.
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2730:Gleiwitz
2722:Duisburg
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2418:Zeller,
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2230:Zeller,
2086:Zeller,
1783:See also
1700:WĂĽrzburg
1673:Buchholz
1649:Sisyphus
1386:Salzburg
1316:between
1296:völkisch
1209:Annaberg
1201:Chiemsee
1130:"Beetle"
1090:Michigan
967:Brussels
870:Berlinka
772:Berlinka
738:Post-war
720:Augsburg
488:Westwall
472:dumpster
279:and the
224:Mannheim
179:between
175:'s 1924
127:Salzburg
4264:of the
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1685:Garbsen
1665:Hanover
1661:Hamburg
1620:Limburg
1591:autarky
1527:Junkers
1281:Bauhaus
1213:Silesia
1027:Silesia
997:in the
959:Stettin
955:Leipzig
847:Hagenow
830:in the
802:in the
756:Austria
752:Germany
663:German
569:Hinzert
547:Hanover
543:Silesia
506:Gestapo
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195:Cologne
137:History
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924:radius
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874:ElblÄ…g
695:, the
448:Sopade
390:, the
248:Aachen
232:Munich
158:Berlin
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1683:near
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181:Milan
82:Nazis
4117:OCLC
4095:OCLC
4079:OCLC
4068:Film
4055:ISBN
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3816:2022
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