UNKNOWN ENEMY

Riveting timely and truly revelatory The Organisation Todt is the Nazi era secret that still needs to emerge from the shadows DAMIEN LEWIS author of SAS Brothers in Arms and The Nazi Hunters Charles Dick has done a major service to the history of the Third Reich The Organisation Todt exploited camp prisoners and forced labourers as ruthlessly and murderously as the better known SS but its responsibility has never been properly explored RICHARD OVERY author of Blood and Ruins Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine Adolf Hitler described the Organisation Todt as the greatest construction organisation of all time It was from this organisation headed by Albert Speer that Hitler enlisted the nation s leading engineers and architects to build his empire of dreams In time it became a key partner to the SS and the Wehrmacht and led to the deaths of millions Unknown Enemy reveals the full extent of the OT and its long arm across Europe and the Reich In wartime its operations relied mainly on Germany s slave labour system the largest exploitation of foreign labour since the end of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Charles Dick takes us inside the OT