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Brutus
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Brutus asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Did you know that VW was founded by the Nazi Party?

The truth about German automaker Volkswagen is that the company was founded as a state owned and controlled automaker by the Nazi Party. Hitler had the idea of creating a car that the common man could afford so he used his power as dictator of Germany to use public funds and resources to open the company.

He then instituted a program where members of the German Workers Party would have a portion of their pay taken and put into a fund toward purchasing their new government made car. Ironically, after WWII started Hitler decided to keep the monies paid by the workers and never delivered a single car to a working man.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Yes.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Did you know that Bayer's Aspirin was controlled by the USA for 50 years after WWII? Similar control occurred for other strategic German companies after WWII. The Germans led chemical research up until the end of WWII when that lead was taken over by The USA and USSR.

    The manufacture of VWs may have begun as a national project in Germany but that has nothing of importance to us today. Air cooled engines are best in lawn mowers and not in cars.

  • 9 years ago

    Ja,

    Hitler was also largely responsible for our interstates too, look that one up ;)

    Basically, he pressed Nazi Germany to build their Federal Expressways. When the allies invaded Germany they used them press deeper into Germany territory.

    President Eisenhower was so impressed with the German freeways that he then pressed America to speed up its own interstate development.

    It could be argued that we would have interstates regardless of the Nazi's and Hitler, but Hitler helped!

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Did you know the V2 rocket Nazi scientist was the father of NASA?

    Germany was the only country with Rocket tech and it was a race to get this scientist between Russia and America, America got him.

    We in Britain desperately wanted them scientist but we got the remains after America and Russia got all the best ones. that is why the British space programme is rubbish.

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  • 9 years ago

    DId you ever hear the joke about how many Jews he could fit in the ashtray of those cars?

    Well it is a terrible joke but not all things bad people do are bad- that is what them so damn hard

    to stop!

    But one question- I thought after WW2 Hitler was dead?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    And one of the very first slave owners was a BLACK man. It is important to know history but also that you should be careful about issuing blame to people who no longer practice something from the past. We should just be very wary of anything the "government" wants to do.

  • 9 years ago

    Yes, those German Socialists are now gone and VW is now a company that shuns such political connections.

    Times change and products can improve.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Hitler wanted people to be mobile. It was probably the one single thing that Hitler did right.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Hitler did many socialist things while he was in charge.

    The Autobahn was to be the peoples highway.

    Hitler was both a far leftist and far rightist.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    yes I did

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