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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 11, 1947

   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                500 ids be a Brawk at the Chi Emsee service station one of the Many that Dot the zone before the boards that Hung by the Roadside informing a Motorist he was wanted new binational character of the autobahn is reflected in its English German designed for needs of occupation de mum y had liners mile rhythm living Thun to and r unify in nazi ing Ile could id wife t about Sager n a Torbahn is Gen Rato Rof such n tended step were to familar to the italian the company could find no backers it went in search of funds for i so the plan was making use of the experience of Todt sold Bis version of the autobahn idea to Hitler who appointed him general inspector of Road a corporation was the  Geneil f As a subsidiary of the state f bail capitalized at fifty million f later the third Reich itself Fluke the sum to two Hundred Mil at the Only a thousand Brokew implemented the gaining it Fae program in a Force of f including conscripts of the Reichs National workers the Todt organization combining voluntary and conscripted labor on a sem military Bis it the a Core of skilled engineers mad in when the 1 Tot thousand Kilometres were opened labourers of All kinds working on the it was about this time that Hitler attempts to attract tourists to using the autobahn to lure Hitler was building his War and for imports of materials the needed foreign credits these the foreign tourists could they tame across with plenty of their cur 1 from 1935 on when half a Mil i lion foreign cars crossed the German i and czechs marvelled As sat at the Drivers Nego ing the Fine drink in the few dreamed that paths from Berk to Geiwitz on die polish from Stettin and to the same and continued on Page is was the operated by a specially chartered where tourists could Dunk 12  
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