Organisation Todt

All articles

A set of WW2 articles related to Organisation Todt. This group of laborers was named after Fritz Todt who died in a plane accident. The laborers built the Atlantic Wall, military installations, bunkers inland for military and civilian use and more. They used forced labor to keep production high.

Atlantic Wall – Coastal Battery Moltke – Jersey, United Kingdom

To defend the beaches on St Ouen's Bay and the waters on the west side of the isle …

Posted July 1, 2023 (updated December 16, 2023) by Patrick

The Wolf’s lair – Wolfsschanze- Hitler’s Headquarters, Gierloz Poland

The Wolfsschanze / Wolf’s Lair was named after the self-given nickname of Adolf Hitler, Wolf. On 21 June …

Posted August 29, 2021 (updated May 3, 2024) by Patrick

Schnellbootbunker YB - Widerstandsnest 77 - Festung IJmuiden- Featured

Schnellbootbunker 2, Widerstandsnest 77 – Festung IJmuiden, The Netherlands

After Fall Gelb, which is the German designation for the taking of the Netherlands and Belgium in May …

Posted May 12, 2017 (updated April 26, 2024) by Patrick

Concentration camp Gross-Rosen main gate

Concentration Camp Gross-Rosen – Rogoźnica, Poland

Gross-Rosen started out as subcamp in August 1940 of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen north of Berlin. A year …

Posted November 15, 2015 (updated May 28, 2023) by Patrick

Maisy Battery – Widerstandsnest 83, Grandcamp-Maisy, Normandy – France

Battery Maisy or Widerstandsnest 83 was a coastal fortification on the Atlantic Wall near the French town of …

Posted August 13, 2014 (updated April 14, 2024) by Patrick

U-Boot Bunker ‘Valentin’, a Submarine Assembly Factory along the Weser River – Bremen Farge, Germany

U-Boot Bunker Valentin was one of the largest projects of Nazi Germany between 1943 and March 1945. The …

Posted September 7, 2013 (updated October 25, 2023) by Patrick

Weingut 1 – Me 262 Factory – Mühldorfer Hart, Bavaria, Germany

Due to the effective bombardments of the Allied forces on infrastructure and war industry, Germany was forced to …

Posted June 28, 2012 (updated May 13, 2024) by Patrick

Musée du Mur de l’Atlantique – Battery Todt, Turm I – Audinghen, Cap Gris Nez, France

Turm I of Batterie Todt is now a World War Two museum called Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique …

Posted February 29, 2012 (updated May 14, 2024) by Pascal