It does seem that this article puts the guilt-by-association-Nazi technique into overdrive.
Lots of hand-waving and speculation and ‘if-then’ assertions from people who are obviously Trump-haters with an axe to grind, unburdened by much if anything that looks to be a factual claim related to the actual person who is being attacked by innuendo, other than a note in passing that someone who was born in 1971 is rather unlikely to have participated in Nazi atrocities during WW II.
“Do you now own, or have you ever owned, a Volkswagen automobile? If so, then given the historical association of Volkswagen with Hitler and the Nazi party and its atrocities during WW II, including the use of forced slave labor, then obviously you must be a Nazi sympathizer. Prove to your inquisitors that you’re not a Nazi sympathizer, or else you must be one. And by the way, have you stopped beating your wife?”
FWIW, my grandmother’s family (on my father’s side) was almost completely exterminated by the Nazis during WW II, and my grandfather (on my mother’s side) married a concentration camp survivor who still carried the tattoo (after my grandmother’s death). So no doubt the authors of the article, Lili Bayer and Larry Cohler-EssesMarch, would also claim that I must be a Holocaust denier and Nazi sympathizer too. Disgusting, but all-too-typical from leftist idiots...
Yeah— “Do you own a Porsche?” Ferdinand Porsche designed the People’s Car... the Volks Wagen for the nazi government, specifically under hitler’s design orders.
So, if one drives a Porsche... must be a nazi, yep. Or maybe Vichy French collaborator.
Magda Goebbel’s first husband was Herr Quandt. Her son’s descendants still own 60% of BMW today, and Herr Quandt never had any repercussions for his slave labor plants. But driving a BMW doesn’t make you a nazi— just stupid (way over engineered).