Volkswagen | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBOn May 26, 1938, Nazi dignitaries gathered near Fallersleben in northern Germany to lay the foundation stone for the Volkswagen Works. The Führer himself was present, predicting that this Volkswagen, initially known as the Kraft-durch-Freude-Wagen, or KdF-Wagen, would be “a symbol of the National Socialist people's community."
Volkswagen: The People’s Car Of Nazi Germany | History Hit
WEBOct 7, 2021 · The desire to create a ‘People’s Car’ was symptomatic of Nazi Germany’s broader policy and ideology that was fuelling their attempts to revive the German economy post-World War One in order to facility a new war. So, how did Nazi Germany create the People’s Car – Volkswagen?
Volkswagen Kübelwagen - Wikipedia
WEBUpon conquest of Germany by the Allies, the country was occupied in four sectors: a U.S., Soviet, U.K. and French sector respectively, and the massive Volkswagen factory and the town built for its workers, Wolfsburg, fell into the British sector.
Volkswagen - Wikipedia
WEBAs was common with much of the production in Nazi Germany during the war, slave labour was utilised in the Volkswagen plant, e.g. from Arbeitsdorf concentration camp. The company would admit in 1998 that it used 15,000 slaves during the war effort.
The Real Story Behind The Nazis And Volkswagen - Jalopnik
WEBOct 2, 2015 · There are absolutely roots in Nazi-era Germany there, and plenty of embarrassing photos, but if you want to be accurate, the Volkswagen we know today was not actually “founded by Nazis.”
Hitler and 'his Volkswagen' – DW – 05/26/2018 - dw.com
WEBMay 26, 2018 · The VW Beetle has the Nazis to thank for its existence. Adolf Hitler laid the cornerstone of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg 80 years ago. Here, a critical retrospective of a German...
Volkswagen is founded - HISTORY
WEBNov 13, 2009 · On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany—then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party—forms a new state-owned automobile company, then known as...
New book examines the link between German business families and Nazi …
WEBIn May 1937, Adolf Hitler's party founded a state-owned company that was later named Volkswagen, or 'The People's Car Company'. Hitler himself asked Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the Porsche car...
Volkswagen, Hitler and the Nazis - Jewish Virtual Library
WEBLike many other industries, automobile manufacturing in Germany was strongly influenced by the Nazi regime. Mirroring the regime’s anti-Semitic policies, the German General Automobile Club ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V., or ADAC) expelled Jewish members in 1933.
Volkswagen Parts Ways With the Historian Who Chronicled Its Nazi …
WEBNov 2, 2016 · Now historians are accusing the company of reverting to secretive ways on a different subject: the Nazi past of German automakers. Over the past 18 years, Volkswagen became something of a...