The death of Fritz Todt

8th February 1942: An eye-witness account of the plane crash which killed Hitler's Armaments Minister suggests that it was not foul play

A burning Heinkel III in 1940.

Fritz Todt, Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions, died in an aircraft crash at Hitler’s ‘Wolfs Lair’ HQ on the Eastern front on 8th February. A long standing member of the Nazi Party, Todt had been trusted by Hitler in a series of military-industrial posts. The ‘Todt Organisation’ had been responsible for using forced…