Quotes from Fritz Todt

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.

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

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.

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.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

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.

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

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.

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.

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

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

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