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BL Nizza BL CANNES BL St. Raphael OBL "W 2" Extent; In the area of SOISSONS. HQ: SOISSONS. Chief; Reg.Bmstr. CLASEN (or KLASSEN?) History; First appears at the end of 1942. OBL "W 3 M Extent; In the area of VENDOME. Hg; VENDOME. Chief; Reichsbahnrat SIMON (prev. KLASSEN) History; First appears at the end of 19^. OBL BURGUND Extent: In the area of BURGUNDI. H£; DUON ? Chief; History; It is only referred to in two documents dated May 1943 and Janiary 1944. Existence doubtful. OBL OHARI£VILLB-REVIN Extent; In the area of the Ardennes Chief; History; This OBL first appears in March 1944 and after June 1944 i s reported as Sondereinsatz AHDENNEN-REVIN or Einsatz Ardennen. Extent; HQ: Chief; OBL ST. I3IZIER History; First appears in March 1944. Also called Abschnitt ST. DIZEER. Extent; talpo.it talpo.it talpo.it OBL MANTES-GASSICOURT Chief; ^^^tok. fc.fe -192
FOREWORD Just as an OT construction unit completed a specific mission somewhere in Europe, permission to begin work on it promptly arrived from Berlin. 05ie above incident is cited' not so much in a spirit of facetious ness, but to illustrate in a striking manner, the administrative complexities inherent in a para-military organisation of the size and extent of OT, as it has evolved over a period of 5 years. Up to only about 6 months ago, the Organisation Todt was active in every country of continental Europe except Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal arri Turkey. A basic reason for the ponderousness of OT administrative machinery was the fact that the Nazis intended to use the Organisation as a wedge in the regimentation of labour as part of the "New Order 11 in a post-war Europe. Long range plans of this type require stabilisation, and stabilisation involves administration. talpo.it In this connection the OT trained and harboured a small army of collaborationists, who, already employed as leaders of foreign labour units within the OT, were groomed for political leadership of European labour with the advent of the "final Nazi victory". A considerable number of these men have evacuated with OT into Germany. As to OT f s post-war tasks in the reconstruction of Europe, grandiose plans were made for it; captured German- documents reveal visions of express highways radiating from BERLIN to the Persian Gulf through BAGHDAD, and along the Baltic coast to link up with a highway through Finland and to run the length of Norway. A system of canals was to link the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through southern France, as part of a communications scheme connecting BORDEAUX with the Black Sea. # Part of this programme had already been put into execution, notably in Norway and the Balkans. talpo.it QT?*s comparatively high wages, bonuses, allowances, allotments, and the relative safety it offers, in contrast to combat service in the Armed Forces, were, and still are, very attractive to the Geraan male faced with the alternate choice. In fact supervisory assigiments in OT were generally reserved for Old Party Fighters, Party members with influential connections, and more recently for older SS members in rapidly increasing numbers. High officials especially, are, with few exceptions, members of the original staff or Nazi technicians which the Party formed as soon as it came into power, and which is represented at the present time by Hauptamt Technik of the NSDAP, headed by Fritz TODT until his death, and now headed by SFEER. The result is that while OT is administratively a Ministry agency and not a^arty formation, in proportion it harbours at least in its permanent administrative staff, possibly more ardent Nazis than a regular formation of the Party. talpo.it If the picture as outlined above has given the impression that nepotism and administrative lag vitally impaired OT's operational efficiency, its record of past performances should serve to dispel the notion. It has carried out in the space of a little over five years, the most impressive building programme since Roman times. It has developed methojds of standardization and rationalisation in construction to an extent and on a scale heretofore unattempted. The speed with which it effects air raid damage repairs on vital communication systems is indeed impressive. -1
Page 1 and 2: IR5/f!lR-0T/5/4S talpo.it talpo.it
Page 3 and 4: MIRS/MR-OT/5A5 LONDON March 19kb HA
Page 5 and 6: GE R MAN Y OT EINSATZGRUPPEN, AUTUM
Page 7 and 8: ERRATA (1) Page i, Table of Content
Page 9 and 10: TABLE OP CONTENTS (See also LIST OP
Page 11 and 12: aining (paras 129-332) pp. 135-137
Page 13 and 14: 4a. OrganizSferiy %f Sfciw t>T& ^ ^
Page 15 and 16: VIb OT Manpower Data: Labour Conscr
Page 17 and 18: 35. "Current Organization" Einsatz
Page 19 and 20: 94* Political Liaison, German Agenc
Page 21: 155» Miscellaneous Deductions and
Page 25 and 26: To-day PT is indispensable in any p
Page 27 and 28: BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Page 29 and 30: UNCLASS 13* The two "basic types 6_
Page 31 and 32: 1. Definition PART I HISTORY OF THE
Page 33 and 34: of control over its plans, which we
Page 35 and 36: 3 months after the annexation of Au
Page 37 and 38: OT units was that of Bautrupps (Con
Page 39 and 40: Generalinspektor far das Strassenwe
Page 41 and 42: __ n be committed to work by order
Page 43 and 44: (Chief of the Sub-section "Technica
Page 45 and 46: 11. OT Construction Activities 1942
Page 47 and 48: Persistent bombings of Prance by th
Page 49 and 50: In case of Allied landings. In the
Page 51 and 52: was responsible. Repair work could
Page 53 and 54: Factors militating against complete
Page 55 and 56: personnel to Germans remains at lea
Page 57 and 58: 1* Rationalization^ on a nation wid
Page 59 and 60: .•* (Construction Sites), in this
Page 61 and 62: The project itself cannot be accept
Page 63 and 64: of the Armament Inspectorate Distri
Page 65 and 66: areas within the Reich; (3) Einsatz
Page 67 and 68: Construction of 24th Augu-st 1944 (
Page 69 and 70: has the final responsibility for me
Page 71 and 72: PART n ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION
Page 73 and 74:
Matters of policy, as decided upon
Page 75 and 76:
egional differences in structure, T
Page 77 and 78:
with the Wehrmacht and with civil a
Page 79 and 80:
designate any area "committed" to O
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which do the actual work. This is o
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and to the tine schedule as laid do
Page 85 and 86:
adjacent construction sites are gro
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Note: For the organizational struct
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Amt Bau-OTZ. The second ia the auto
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