These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

As a special privilege Todt was permitted to have considerable power and was not necessarily immediately answerable to any of the Reich ministries. On 8 February 1942 while flying away from the conclusion of a meeting with Hitler at the Wolfsschanze ("Wolf's Lair") at Rastenburg his aircraft exploded and craFritz Todtd. What was never in dispute however was that the OT used millions of forced laborers (Zwangsarbeiter) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials (formally the "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

He died in a plane crash during World War II.