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Politically, the company leaders were linked to the rising Nazi Party; an aircraft was made available to Adolf Hitler for his campaign for the 1932 presidential election free of any charge. The Nazi party used footage of those flights for their propaganda efforts and gained an advantage in being able to hold events featuring Hitler in different ...
Volkswagen Group's global headquarters are located in Volkswagen's historic home of Wolfsburg, Germany. [87] [88] Volkswagen Group, as a unit, is Europe's largest motor vehicle manufacturer, with over 74,000 employees and over 7,700 dealerships. [89] For a long time, Volkswagen has had a market share over 20 per cent. [90]
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 ...
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 ...
Millions of Jews, Slavs and other conquered peoples were used as slave labourers by German corporations including Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben, Bosch, Daimler-Benz, Demag, Henschel, Junkers, Messerschmitt, Siemens, and Volkswagen, [11] not to mention the German subsidiaries of foreign firms, such as Fordwerke (a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company ...
[26] In 1948, the Ford Motor Company of USA was offered Volkswagen, but Ernest Breech, a Ford executive vice president, said he did not think either the plant or the car was "worth a damn." [ 27 ] Breech later said that he would have considered merging Ford of Germany and Volkswagen, but after the war, ownership of the company was in such ...
At the 1933 Berlin Motor Show, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced two new programs: [7] The people's car ( Volks wagen ): a project that became the KdF car – the "Strength through Joy" car A state-sponsored motor racing programme: to develop a "high speed German automotive industry," the foundation of which would be an annual sum of ...
Aerial view of the Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant. The Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant is the worldwide headquarters of the Volkswagen Group. [1] Situated in Wolfsburg, Germany, it is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world, with an area of just under 6.5 million m 2 (70 million sq ft) and a building area of 1.6 million m 2 (17 million sq ft). [2]