I really didn’t know that the fortune of VW started from Hitler (I guess it’s common knowledge among Germans)… more from this site (straightdope.com) and here. From www.straightdope.com: Hitler didn’t name it but there’s no question he helped create it. Ferdinand Porsche had been working on a popularly priced “people’s car” (whence “Volkswagen”). At a 1934 meeting [...]

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