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Stuart Attewell (Paris, Fr)'s avatar

Unfortunately, VW was founded by the Nazi Party Government's German labour Front and was heavily implicated in the use of slave labour and concentration camp victims to produce the "jeep" based on the beetle chassis.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/volkswagen-halts-production-during-world-war-ii

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volkswagen-1

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craig litherland's avatar

I'm sorry if my "revisionist history" statement offended, I only took exception to the use of VW vans being used as transport by the Germans in those horrendous death camps. I have an old VW bus (van), horrible enough to think that VW was so instrumental in slave labour and concentration. I don't think I could continue to own my bus if knew it had been built/used to transport in such an evil way.

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