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(Eastern Wall) in April 1943* At one time OT was investigating thepossibility of trunk highways to BERLIN from RIGA and from LEMBERG(LVOV).vii) Slovakia.A building programme was inaugurated in Slovakia in 1939 tryFritz TODT whereby OT began a network of roads, the completion ofwhioh was left to Slovakia. OT completed its share, but thepresent state of the project is unknown.viii) Balkans.A Balkan trunk highway (Balkan Durchgangstrasse) was plannedin the summer of 1941* It was to extend from BELGRADE toSALONIKA via KRAGUJEVAC, NISH, SKOPLJE, VELES, with a side roadfrom NISH to SOFIA. Its total length was to be about 400 milesand 7>000 to 10,000 men, mostly Serbs and Greeks, were employed onit.Another type of OT construction typical in the Balkan Area wasthat of funicular railways.ix) Rumania.The DERUBAU (Deutsch-RumMnische Bau Gesellschaft), theGerman-Rumanian Building Corporation, was established in 1940 andentrusted with the development of roads and the laying of oilpipe lines. The arrangement was that the OT should initiate theprogramme. It was then to continue under Rumanian technicalsupervision. Improvement and expansion of the strategicallyimportant network of roads in the Moldavia region and inBessarabia and beyond the Dniester were part of the scheme.x) Bulgaria.In June 1942 the Bulgarian Minister for Labour concluded anagreement with the OT whereby, under a Five-Year-Plan, the OTwould complete 900 miles of asphalt roads during the period from1942 to 1946* Each year some 200 miles of roads were to be built,OT also improved Bulgaria's Danube Port of RUSHCHUK»xi) Albania.Two important roads were "built in Albania lay the OT, onelinking Serbia near PRIZRBN" with Northern Albania; the other fromELBASAN, connecting with the Bulgarian road network near BISTOLTin the south was improved with the help of Italian Army engineers.xii) Germany (See also IIB46 above-)Except for Einsatzgruppe Ruhregebiet (established May 1943),the OT did not becoxne a factor in construction within the Reichuntil the summer of 1944* At the present time Germany is dividedinto eight Einsatzgruppen, twenty-two EinsMtze and an unknownnumber of Oberbauleitungen (see Part v). The OTZ has been mergedwith Ajnt-Bau to form Amt Bau-OTZ which, as a para-militaryagency, now has comprehensive control over all aspects of constructionwithin Germany (see JB19).The present tasks of the OT can be divided into four maintypes:1. Mindestbauprogram which may be translated as anirreducible minimum of most urgently needed repairsconstruction, formulated in the form of relativelyt term programmes (three to six months).-43 ­