Аукцион Bidspirit | Pencil Sketch by Senior Nazi

Pencil Sketch by Senior Nazi Fritz Todt - Pencil drawing by Senior Nazi Fritz Todt measuring 13 inches x 8 inches. This was acqired by a lifelong resident of Berchtesgaden who met many high level Third reich personalities and their families after the war. The back of the drawing has Fritz Todt’s offical stamp. The drawing itself appears to be a landscape with a road going through the middle. There is also a tag stapled to the top left corner which is the location of the drawing and the year 1933, and then possibly an inventory number. Also included is a letter from Todt’s wife dated 3 Nov 1993 and a modern copy of a photo of Todt and his family. Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior Nazi who rose from the position of Inspector General for German Roadways, in which he directed the construction of the German autobahns (Reichsautobahnen), to become the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition. From that position, he directed the entire German wartime military economy.Before the beginning of World War II, he initiated what Hitler called Organisation Todt, a military-engineering company that supplied industry with forced labour and administered construction of the Nazi concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.Todt died in an aircraft crash in 1942. Fritz Todt was among the most powerful technocrats of the Third Reich, overseeing the construction of the Reichsautobahn network in the 1930s before being appointed Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions in 1940, a post from which he directed the entire wartime armaments economy. The organisation bearing his name, Organisation Todt, became a major instrument of Nazi construction policy, relying extensively on forced and slave labour for military infrastructure projects including fortifications and, later in the war, facilities connected to the concentration camp system. Todt died in a plane crash near Rastenburg in February 1942, shortly after leaving a meeting with Hitler, and was succeeded by Albert Speer. Berchtesgaden, where this item was reportedly acquired, was a centre of Nazi leadership activity given its proximity to Hitler's Obersalzberg residence, and postwar residents there frequently had contact with surviving family members of senior regime figures.