Volkswagen and Adolf Hitler

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Volkswagen boss apologises for Nazi gaffe

 

What an idiot.
Stefan.

 

Volkswagen Parts Ways With the Historian Who Chronicled Its Nazi Past

 

If Mr. Grieger remains silent on the circumstances of his departure it can be safely assumed that he received a very large cheque in exchange for his cooperation.

Given the stupidity of recent company statements I wouldn't have been surprised if forced labourers weren't blamed for Dieselgate.

 

They offered the Dieselgate programmer the Ernst Rohm retirement option.

 

Saw this on a prewar cars group. No info given except "1937 Volkswagen Fusca Beetle KdF-Wagen W30 prototype"

 

This was at the WW2 Weekend in Reading PA

 

I don't know what is going on here but like the picture. Maybe the VW factory being run by the Brits?

 

In the 70's, most of the old Beetles here went off-road and, depending on your budget, looking like this or this:

 

1938 Brochure.

Any German speaker like to translate it?

 

Being just someone driving a car sometimes, my initial comment is: WOW, what a car!
Some of the very well chosen wording is pretty technical, but give me some time and I can translate the text. May be not in such long sentences though.
Stefan.

 

As well as the Volkswagon there was also the volksradio - every German worker should have a radio set. Very basic - pre tuned of course so they couldn't be used to listen to degenerate stations like the BBC. They turned out to be rubbish. There was great demand for confiscated French radios but most sought after were Marconi or Bush Wireless sets taken from the Channel islands

 

Are you sure? All sources point to the Volksradio (Volksempfanger) being tunable, although only German stations were marked. They could be tuned, albeit with some difficulty and usually at night, to foreign and the BBC stations. Apparently the notion that they were pre-tuned is a well known myth. Of course listening to foreign stations was a punishable offence.

Tim

 

What an... imaginative interpretation of the amount of leg room in that car My grandmother had a yellow Beetle for many years.

 

Dave me old mate if we had been running it the below would be the result