This week the Autobahn, one of the first highway systems in the world, turned 75 on September 18, 2007. The idea for the Autobahn first came about during the days of the Weimar Republic in 1929, but construction was halted by World War II in 1943.
When Adolf Hitler took power in January 1933, he embraced the ambitious Autobahn construction project.
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