Behind the Bastards has a really good episode on Volkswagen. I might have some of the details wrong, but the German government was subsidizing them for a while with the dream of having every citizen driving a Volkswagen. After the war they ended up getting involved in slave operated meat farms in Brazil.
Behind the Bastards has a really good episode on Volkswagen. I might have some of the details wrong, but the German government was subsidizing them for a while with the dream of having every citizen driving a Volkswagen.
Correct! The Nazi government tried to push a payment plan onto people, even. The people who paid into the scam fundraising effort but did not receive a car (ie all of them, as no cars were actually delivered) eventually sued after the war to get some small percentage of their money back.
Yeah they were called the KDFwagen too then (strength trough joy car).
They switched to buildings then as little jeeps and invaded Russia instead of delivering the cars to the buyers. Pieche ran the factories with concentration labor after they ran out of hitler youth to exploit. And the British passed over the car when the war read over because conditions at the factory are so bad the cars were being built like shit initially.
Behind the Bastards has a really good episode on Volkswagen. I might have some of the details wrong, but the German government was subsidizing them for a while with the dream of having every citizen driving a Volkswagen. After the war they ended up getting involved in slave operated meat farms in Brazil.
Correct! The Nazi government tried to push a payment plan onto people, even. The people who paid into the
scamfundraising effort but did not receive a car (ie all of them, as no cars were actually delivered) eventually sued after the war to get some small percentage of their money back.They were never delivered?? I was familiar with the story but no one had ever mentioned that before, that seems pretty fuckin important 😅
Yeah they were called the KDFwagen too then (strength trough joy car).
They switched to buildings then as little jeeps and invaded Russia instead of delivering the cars to the buyers. Pieche ran the factories with concentration labor after they ran out of hitler youth to exploit. And the British passed over the car when the war read over because conditions at the factory are so bad the cars were being built like shit initially.
Sounds like a certain crypto coin, or watch, or whatever.
Just a hop, skip, and trip into slave-operated meat farms. The pipeline from car manufacterer to slaver is strangely efficient.