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Remind me who created VW again? Seems like that brand is rehabilitated...
by influx 1y ago
Remind me who created VW again? Seems like that brand is rehabilitated...
- userbinator 1y agoI've always found it amusing how the VW Beetle got its cultural associations. Maybe some things just stand on their own regardless of their origins.
- whyenot 1y agoFerdinand Prosche. Oh you mean the association with the Nazis, like Henry Ford?
- FredPret 1y agoYou must be joking. Yes, Henry Ford had Nazi sympathies. But VW was literally founded by the Nazis: > "Volkswagen was established in 1937 by the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront) as part of the Strength Through Joy (German: Kraft durch Freude) program in Berlin" [0] > "The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaʁbaɪtsfʁɔnt]; DAF) was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung or Nazification." [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#:~:text=1932–1944:%20People's%20Car%20project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#:~:text=1932–1944:%... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front Besides, both Mercedes (as Daimler-Benz) and BMW made Nazi tanks during that time. All those brands are now squeaky-clean.