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Extent: C. Einsatz Mittelnorwegen Troadheira. 1* OBL Mo i Rana BL Bodft BL Sandnesjoen 2. OBL Trondheim BL Trondheim BL Namsos BL Trondheim 3« OBL Aandalsnes BL Gossen BL Aalesund BL Kristiansund 4* OBL Bergen BEL Maalfty BL Sognefjord BL Bergen-Nord BL Bergen-Sfid BL Haugesund BL Fjell 5. OBL Toensberg BL Larvik BL Frederikstad 6. OBL Kristiansand BL Kristiansand BL Vara BL Lista BL Stavanger D. Einsatz DSnemark. Kopenhagen. BL Hjoerring BL Thistedt BL Holstebro BL Esbjerg BL Struer RBR ALtinger RBR Heller (or OBR Schmidt?) Reg. Blastr. Morlok. Kreisbaurat Henn Bauass. Hermann Ing. Httnnecke Bmstr. Kirberg Dipl. Ing. Herr Marine OBR Obbarius (succeeded by OBR Eppendorffer?) iroh.Hasler Bmstr. Dttnnebacken OBR Dixichs OBR Hausmann (succeeded by Merinebaurat Komoli?) Ing. Weber Dipl. Ing. Rabitsch Bmstr. Siegert Dipl. Ing. Kwabitsch Bauass. Wbpking Stadtbaurat Oswald talpo.it EASTERN EUROPE C. EINSATZ FINNLAND Baudirektor Gravert Dipl. Ing. Sievers Bauinsp. Helmprecht Stadtbaurat Kurp Kreiskul tur bmstr. Oe It ze Dipl. Ing. Doelecke Prov. BR Votz RBR Haag talpo.it RBR. Helms Prov. BR KBhling Bauass. Weissensee Bauinsp. Heuer Bauinsp. Mahrt BR Fink talpo.it Einsatzleiter ORBR MICHAHELLES (until summer of 1944; made Deputy Chief of EG33VTII). History: BL Petsamo Dipl.Ing. Ostermann BL Mari Ing. Hofmann BL Kuusamo Dipl. Ing. Kriegley BL Janiskoski BR Wendel Leitstelle Reval Hptrf• Frohn A Pff report (to March 1945) shows a different arrangement for OBLs. Bergen and Toensberg, iihereby these two come under Einsatz "Oslo", administered directly fraa EG- Wiking HQ (Bauleitung Wiping). -196
1. Definition PART I HISTORY OF THE OT A. 1938 to D-Day The OT has been variously defined "by the enemy. ' Hitler called i t "an organisation entrusted with the execution of construction tasks playing a decisive role in the war effort". Fritz TQDT, its founder, proudly referring to it as "a task force", and deprecating the gradual increase of administrative routine, said on one occasion: "We are called Organisation Todt without ever having organised 11 . The German Supreme Command, as early as 1940, stated officially that members of the OT were to be regarded as "Miliz" (militia; for a definition of the present military status of OT, see Table i) . The Organisation in one of its circulars termed itself M a body charged with military construction for defensive purposes"• 2. Fritz TCDT's Career to 1938 talpo.it In May 1938, the Army Itortress Engineers had been working on the Sieved line, or West Wall as it is now called by the Germans, for two years without any prospect of completing it in time to fit into the Nazi military schedule. The General Inspektor fttr das deutsche Strassenwesen (Inspector General of German Headways) Dr. TOOT, was the man picked to take over the job from the Anqy. Fritz TODT was born on 4th September 1891, in PFORZHEIM, Baden. He obtained the decree of Dr. Ing. (Doctor of Engineering) from the Munich Technical Institute and entered the imperial Army in 1914, as Lieutenant of the Reserve. Be transferred to the Air Force, was wounded in August 1918 in air combat, received the Iron Cross, and the Order of the House of Hohenzollern, but stil l held the rank of Leu tenant at the conclusion of World War I. Shortly after, he entered the employ of the construction firm, Sager and Woe me r at MUNICH, a concern specializing in road and tunnel construction, and became its manager. He joined the Nazi Party as early as 1922, soon won HITLER'S friendship and confidence, and was one of the founders of the Nationalsozialistischer Bund deutscher Technik (Nazi League of German Technicians) which then used the SS training school at FLASSENBURG near KUIMB.ACH as a training and research institute. (The school has since been appropriated by the OT as an indoctrination centre for its ranking personnel). The League was especially concerned with opening new industrial fields including those of the armament industry, leading to the economic independence of the Reich and to the solution of the unemployment problem. TCIDT, for instance, wrote a paper about 1930 entitled, Proposals and Financial Hans for the Qnployment of one Million Men. talpo.it talpo.it The project as outlined in substance was a plan for a Reich highway system, incidentally, said to have been based on a similar study issued by the German Ministry of Economics as early as 1923* On 28th June 1933* & state-owned public corporation was established by Cabinet decree under the title of Reiohsautobahnen (Reich Highway System) and a permanent administrative office with the title of General Inspektor f&r das deutsche Strassenwesen (inspectorate General of German Roadways) was established simultaneously and put under the direction of TQDT. The corporation was set up as a subsidiary of the Reichsbahn (State Railways) which exercised parental control, over it . The German Armed Forces, however, retained general powers -5
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 and 22: 155» Miscellaneous Deductions and
Page 23 and 24: FOREWORD Just as an OT construction
Page 25 and 26: To-day PT is indispensable in any p
Page 27 and 28: BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Page 29: UNCLASS 13* The two "basic types 6_
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
Page 81 and 82:
which do the actual work. This is o
Page 83 and 84:
and to the tine schedule as laid do
Page 85 and 86:
adjacent construction sites are gro
Page 87 and 88:
Note: For the organizational struct
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Amt Bau-OTZ. The second ia the auto
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