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 DESCRIPTION
 SOURCE
Autobahn - Hitler innovated modern freeway roads
  • (E) Encyclopædia Britannica 2001 - The Freeway
    In 1933 Adolf Hitler began construction of an integrated freeway network known as the Reichsautobahnen
Cancer - Hitler's initiative and funding
  • (B) The Nazi War on Cancer - Robert Proctor (University Press)
    There is a great deal being done for cancer research in Germany. In every part of the Reich there are magnificent institutes, for which the Führer has provided large sums of money.
  • (B) Doctors under Hitler - Kater,MH (Chapel Hill)
CockpitRecorder - Hitler's idea and directive for design and manufacture.
  • (B) The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe - Irving - p189 (Focal Point)
    after Todt’s death Hitler had ordered the Luftwaffe to develop a crash-proof magnetic wire-recorder for the cockpit of such aircraft
    - available as free download at www.fpp.co.uk
  • (B) Hitler's war - Irving - p484 - (Focal Point)
    (Hitler) ordered the air ministry to design a cockpit recorder, to install in future planes, to register the cause of any accidents.
    - available as free download at www.fpp.co.uk
 
 
Olympic Nazi innovations
  • (E) Encyclopædia Britannica 2001- Berlin, Germany, 1936
    The Games were televised for the first time, transmitted by closed circuit to specially equipped theatres in Berlin. The 1936 Games also introduced the torch relay
  • (B) The Naked Olympics - Tony Perrottet (Random House)
    The torch relay, for example, is so ingrained in the modern choreography that most people today assume it was a revival of a pagan tradition—unaware that it was actually concocted for Hitler’s Games in Berlin.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Volkswagen innovated by Hitler
  • (E) Encyclopædia Britannica 2001 - Porsche, Ferdinand
    Porsche became deeply involved in Hitler's project for a "people's car" and with his son Ferdinand, known as Ferry, was responsible for the initial design of the Volkswagen in 1934
  • (W) www.hitler.org
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