Quote Originally Posted by Bill Paxtom View Post
'1933'

Expansion of the 'Autobahn'

By 1936, Mr. Hitler put nearly 130,000 people to work on the Super Highway,
with another 250,000 providing service for the road crews.

These were excellent paying jobs, that moved many Germans from 'very poor'
to the level of upper middle-class.
"As late as 1930 the National Socialist (Nazi) party helped vote down a HaFraBa autobahn proposal presented to the Reichstag. Ironically, it was the work of HaFraBa that allowed Hitler and his chief civil engineer Dr. Fritz Todt to proceed with autobahn construction in 1933, the year Hitler and the Nazis came to power. Hitler quickly realized the propaganda value he could get from promoting the autobahn. He and the Nazis found it easy to take credit for the earlier work of others and make it seem that it was all the Führer's own idea."
Game , set and match! Now stop being a sap for the sake of it my little pedigree chum.