The Story Unfolds
Fritz Todt and Albert Speer
The story of the Atlantic Wall is also the story of Organisation Todt, which Hitler called the 'greatest construction organisation of all time'. It was a vast Nazi engineering and building concern that exploited millions of slave labourers from occupied countries during WWII. Pictured here in the first two portrait photos is the organisation's founder, Fritz Todt, creator of Germany's first motorway network, appointed Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production. When he died in a mysterious plane crash in 1942, Albert Speer, pictured in the second two photographs, succeeded him.
Archive usually eats up a significant proportion of a film's budget so at the moment we're working hard to source images we can use for free.
Fritz Todt archive images:
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1969-146-01 / Röhn / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1969-146-02 / Röhn / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
Albert Speer archive images:
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1979-026-22 / Hoffmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild, 146-1922-093-13A / Hubmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
Rob Bell and Dorien Styven
As part of his research for the first short film in our Atlantic Wall story, Rob Bell chatted with Dorien Styven at the Kazerne Dossin museum and research centre in Antwerp. As a result of this chat, Rob and director Graham will be travelling to the museum to access some of the incredible material - including firsthand accounts - in their collection.
Initial Development Chat with Rob Bell
This is the recording of Sarah's first conversation with Rob Bell. Here we explore Rob's passion for building a collection of films around The Atlantic Wall, what personally motivates him and where we think we should target our initial research.
