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    The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under Nazi Germany. There had been previous plans for controlled-access highways in...
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    1930s, when construction began on the system, the official name was Reichsautobahn. Various other controlled-access highways exist on the federal (Bundesstraße)...
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    given to sections of the unfinished Reichsautobahn Berlin-Königsberg, which was a pre-World War II German Reichsautobahn project to connect Berlin with Königsberg...
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    Hans Stuck would have driven the T80 over a special stretch of the Reichsautobahn Berlin — Halle/Leipzig, which passed south of Dessau (now part of the...
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    simple, mass-produced car—to serve Germany's new road network, the Reichsautobahn. The German engineer Ferdinand Porsche and his design team began developing...
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    German). Thomas Kunze and Rainer Stommer, "Geschichte der Reichsautobahn", in: Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs. Analysen zur Ästhetik eines...
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    Rainer (1982). "Geschichte der Reichsautobahn". In Stommer, Rainer; Philipp, Claudia Gabriele (eds.). Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs. Analysen...
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  • Germania, the projected renewal of Berlin. Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) Reichsautobahn Museen. "Building the Nazi Party Rally Grounds | Documentation Center...
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    near the end of World War II in Nazi Germany, where the well developed Reichsautobahn system allowed aircraft to use the motorways. During the Cold War highway...
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    ribbons across our land." Eisenhower also gained an appreciation of the Reichsautobahn system, the first "national" implementation of modern Germany's Autobahn...
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    Rainer (1982). "Geschichte der Reichsautobahn". In Stommer, Rainer; Philipp, Claudia Gabriele (eds.). Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs. Analysen...
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    new hotel, AFRC-Europe closed AFRC-Chiemsee (Seehotel was a former Reichsautobahn Rest area "Rasthaus am Chiemsee" from Nazi times ) and the General Patton...
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    Bestelmeyer, opened in January 1936 as one of the first large bridges in the Reichsautobahn system and was influential in its design. Destroyed at the end of World...
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    Rainer (1982). "Geschichte der Reichsautobahn". In Stommer, Rainer; Philipp, Claudia Gabriele (eds.). Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs. Analysen...
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    bridge built between 1938 and 1940 near Wommen, Germany, as part of the Reichsautobahn system. It is a 26.5 metres (87 ft) tall and 303.8 metres (997 ft) long...
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    Ju 88 heavy fighters parked beside a Reichsautobahn used as a highway strip, early 1945...
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    construction of the A 9 was not begun until the 1930s as part of the Reichsautobahn project set up by Nazi Germany. It was inaugurated in sections, beginning...
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    Rainer (1982). "Geschichte der Reichsautobahn". In Stommer, Rainer; Philipp, Claudia Gabriele (eds.). Reichsautobahn: Pyramiden des Dritten Reichs. Analysen...
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    built in Austria, originating from plans drawn up for the so-called Reichsautobahn system. Completed in 1967, today it runs from the outskirts of Vienna...
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    the following convenient transport connections: The Mittelland Canal Reichsautobahn from Berlin to Hannover (today Federal Highway 2) Main railway line...
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    of Württemberg and the Republic of Baden north of the Karlsruhe-Ulm Reichsautobahn (now the A 8) In addition, Bremen and Bremerhaven (including the districts...
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    Danzig, while proposing that an extraterritorial roadway, part of the Reichsautobahn system, be built in order to connect East Prussia with Germany proper...
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    automobile company were produced in Stettin from 1899 to 1945. By 1939, the Reichsautobahn Berlin–Stettin was completed. Stettin played a major role as an entrepôt...
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    those of the German Reichsautobahn, as Czech (Bohemian-Moravian) motorways were to be integrated within the German Reichsautobahn network. The project...
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    public works programmes such as the Reichsbahn, Reichspost, and the Reichsautobahn projects. In 1935 rearmament in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles...
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    December 2021. Staff (28 March 1938). "Hitler Takes Austria: Goebbels and Reichsautobahn". Life. Vol. 4, no. 3. p. 20. Retrieved 28 February 2016. Staff (25...
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    annexing Trans-Olza. In 1939, Hitler claimed extraterritoriality for the Reichsautobahn Berlin-Königsberg and a change in Danzig's status in exchange for promises...
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    annexation of Austria on order of Adolf Hitler as extension of the German Reichsautobahn-Strecke 26 from München (Munich) (the present-day Bundesautobahn 8)...
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    which would also be linked by the planned easternmost reaches of the Reichsautobahn freeway network. Due to mountainous terrain, the initial phase routes...
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    Railway (Hafenbahn Bremen) 27 June 1933: the DRG's sister company the Reichsautobahn was founded 1 March 1935: the railways of the Saar were incorporated...
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