Organisation Todt
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Organisation Todt (OT) was a Nazi construction and engineering group during the years of the Third Reich, which enslaved over 1.5 million men and boys from countries occupied by Nazi Germany. Organised by and named for Fritz Todt, the Reichsminister für Rüstung- und Kriegsproduktion, it was attached to the military and was active during World War II.
The main role of the group was to build communications links and defensive structures. Almost all large scale WWII German military structures were built by the group's slaves, including armaments factories and concentration camps. The group was responsible for the Atlantic Wall, the submarine pens, and German defences in Italy such as the Gustav Line.
The group was made up of a small number of technical advisors and engineers and an enormous number of foreign abductees (1.5 million by 1944), many of whom were forced to live in horrific conditions. The Todt Organisation's compulsory labour programme for foreign workers was run by Fritz Sauckel. In addition to their use in military supervised construction, custody of slave labourers kidnapped from Nazi-occupied lands was often transferred to private German and collaborating French employers who had had received military production contracts.
In 1942, following the death of Todt in an air crash, the group was removed from military control and became part of the central government under the Central Planning Board and Albert Speer.
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[edit] Organisation Todt Leaders
- Fritz Todt (1938-1942)
- Albert Speer (1942-1945)
[edit] OT-Einsatzgruppen of the Organisation Todt (Germany and Foreign)
- OT-Einsatzgruppe Italien
- OT-Einsatzgruppe Ost (Kiev)
- OT-Einsatzgruppe Reich (Berlin)
- OT-Einsatzgruppe Südost (Belgrade)
- OT-Einsatzgruppe West (Paris)
- OT-Einsatzgruppe Wiking (Oslo)
[edit] OT-Einsatzgruppen of the Organisation Todt (Germany)
- Deutschland I ("Tannenberg") (Rastenburg)
- Deutschland II (Berlin)
- Deutschland III ("Hansa") (Essen)
- Deutschland IV ("Kyffhäuser") (Weimar)
- Deutschland V (Heidelberg)
- Deutschland VI (Munich)
- Deutschland VII (Prague)
- Deutschland VIII ("Alpen") (Villach)
[edit] Working and Administrative Ranks of the Organisation Todt
- Chef der OT
- OT-Einsatzgruppenleiter I
- OT-Einsatzgruppenleiter II
- OT-Einsatzleiter
- OT-Hauptbauleiter
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- OT-Bauleiter
- OT-Hauptbauführer
- OT-Oberbauführer
- OT-Bauführer
- OT-Haupttruppführer
- OT-Obertruppführer
- OT-Truppführer
- OT-Oberstfrontführer
- OT-Oberstabsfrontführer
- OT-Stabsfrontführer
- OT-Oberfrontführer
- OT-Frontführer
- OT-Obermeister
- OT-Obermeister
- OT-Meister
- OT-Vorarbeiter
- OT-Stammarbeiter
- OT-Arbeiter
[edit] Medical Ranks of the Organisation Todt (Sanitätswesen)
- OT-Einsatzleiter
- OT-Oberstarzt
- OT-Oberfeldarzt
- OT-Oberstabsarzt
- OT-Stabsarzt
- OT-Oberarzt
- OT-Arzt
- OT-Sanitätshaupttruppführer
- OT-Sanitätsobertruppführer
- OT-Sanitätstruppführer
- OT-Hauptsanitäter
- OT-Obersanitäter
- OT-Stammsanitäter
- OT-Sanitäter
[edit] Background material
- Robert Gildea. 2002. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42359-4.
