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During the war, beetles were produced using slave labor, the secret of Nazi wartime production.
Somewhere in my library I've got a whole book on this topic (i.e., VW during Nazi regime).
“Somewhere in my library I’ve got a whole book on this topic (i.e., VW during Nazi regime).”
Probably the book “Small Wonder. “ It’s a great history lesson and another example of how unlikely it is for VW to even be around today.
Only a few hundred "KdF-Wagens" were built for the elites, sedan production stopped as the war commenced. VW then built military vehicles (Kubelwagen, Schwimmwagen etc). Mercedes and all the other German manufacturers also produced Wehrmacht machines...and so did our Big Three.
I'm certain that the German car companies did whatever Hitler told them to do (or be shot) and he likely provided them with "workers". That doesn't necessarily make them Nazis.