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On August 3, 1933, Adolf Hitler received Sosthenes Behn (then the CEO of ITT) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in one of his first meetings with US businessmen. [16] [17] [18] [need quotation to verify] In his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton claims that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS-leader ...
A 1974 "Acapulco" Thing. The Volkswagen Type 181 is a two-wheel drive, four-door convertible, manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen from 1968 until 1983. Originally developed for the West German Army, the Type 181 also entered the civilian market as the Kurierwagen (“courier car”) in West Germany, the Trekker (RHD Type 182) in the United Kingdom, the Thing in the United States and Canada ...
German manufacturers produced touring buses for the non-car-owning public, [92] and the Volkswagen (then called the KdF-Wagen, Strength Through Joy car, for the Nazi recreation organization) was developed and marketed in association with the autobahn to promote car ownership; Hitler first publicly called for its development at the opening of ...
A Volkswagen bus, named Azul by its owner, sits among burned-out homes in Malibu, California, on January 9. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Classified advertisements website Craigslist Inc. Logo used since 1995 Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008 Type of business Private Type of site Classifieds, forums Available in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Founded 1995 ; 30 years ago (1995 ...
By 1950, the first Volkswagen Type 2 Buses were hitting the road. 1950s-era VW Transporter T1. Sjoerd van der Wal - Getty Images. 1951 Westfalia "Camping Box"
C&T Auctions consultant Tim Harper believed the photo album found in April 1945 in the bedroom of Hitler's longtime companion Eva Braun would fetch up to more than more than 15 thousand pounds ...
Assisted in the sale of Nazi war bonds (Rueckwanderer Marks) to German Americans. Carl Zeiss AG [34] Zeiss logo: 1846 Oberkochen, Jena, Wetzlar, Mainz, Berlin: After initial conflicts with the Nazis, the company took part in the rearmament of the Wehrmacht in the 1930s and sponsored the so-called race research at the University of Jena (Optic ...