hi guys i came across this WWII Volkswagen slave labour uniform, has anyone seen one of these before? they were used during the VW Beetle manufacturing period
Wow! That is really something. VW won't be happy seeing that. I believe their largest surviving plant ended up in the British sector and the British army ran it for a year or two immediately after the war producing Beetles. Dave
Wow! That is really something. VW won't be happy seeing that. I believe their largest surviving plant ended up in the British sector and the British army ran it for a year or two immediately after the war producing Beatles. Dave probably not.... i have not seen another example
Major Ivan Hirst was responsible for getting VW production going after WW2, there is a lot of information about him and this period of VW history on the net. He was featured in the REME museum at Arborfield but I think this recently closed and maybe moving to RAF Lyneham. The British involvement does seem to have given VW a “clean break” in many peoples eyes but I have no doubt that many (ex?) nazis were involved with the British and went on to draw good VW pensions. Over the years I have leant that many nations, including Israel, have a different post war view of German companies that were involved in WW2 slave labour, gas chambers etc than the perhaps traditional British view. I do remember going to a Corporate function some 25 years ago held by Henkel Chemicals (manufacture Unibond and Pritt Sticks amongst many other products) at Watford Football Club when they were proud to tell us that they manufactured gas for the death chambers in WW2; I am proud to tell you that they got as little business as possible from us after that. I think the second photo posted is of post war production.
