Posted on 10/13/2013 11:14:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The last surviving stretch of German autobahn built under Hitler is set to disappear, almost 80 years after it was first constructed.
The four-kilometer stretch of road on the A11, northeast of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg, dates from 1936 and was part of Hitlers massive motorway-building program of the Reichsautobahn.
Newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that the road survived Nazism and Communism and, despite some repair work, is still the original stretch from the 1930s.
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According to the site I quoted from, that number was zero. Hitler got one as a birthday day present, after which he celebrated by invading Poland, and thence stopping production of the VW.
You got me to looking for more info. When I thought of a couple hundred deliveries I may have been thinking of the various pre- war prototype batches.
One VW site said that 643 vehicles were produced from 1941 to 45 for the use of Socialist Labor Party officials.
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