2-378-028 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

One of many roads built by the Nazis, Germany, 1936. A typical section of autobahn passing through a forest. Hitler ordered an ambitious programme of building the autobahn network soon after he came to power in 1933. The project not only improved Germany's transport infrastructure but also created 100,000 jobs and was a propaganda coup. From Germany: The Olympic Year, published by Volk und Reich Verlag. (Berlin, 1936).