![]() Pennant for Organisation Todt | |
![]() Woman with Ostarbeiter OT badge at Auschwitz | |
Civil and military engineering overview | |
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Formed | 1933 |
Dissolved | 1945 |
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Civil and military engineering executives |
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Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt]) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party. The organisation was responsible for a huge range of engineering projects both in Nazi Germany and in occupied territories from France to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The organisation became notorious for using forced labour. From 1943 until 1945 during the late phase of the Third Reich, OT administered all constructions of concentration camps to supply forced labour to industry.