Organisation Todt

Organisation Todt (OT)

Pennant for Organisation Todt
Woman with Ostarbeiter OT badge at Auschwitz
Civil and military engineering overview
Formed	1933 (1933)
Dissolved	1945
Jurisdiction	Nazi Germany
Civil and military engineering executive	Fritz Todt†

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.