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View submission: the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago
The idea of the program for the VW was actually really cool. It was meant to be a voucher arrangement of sorts. Like a stamp booklet where you bought a stamp each week, and then when you had a full book you could redeem it and get your little family car. If you missed a week, you had to start over. The whole thing took like half a year or something, and amounted to like 15% of a typical household income or something. Pretty reasonable.
It’s too bad Hitler stole all the money and used it to build tanks and none of the cars were ever delivered to the people.
Comment by OneBangMan at 12/03/2025 at 13:54 UTC
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Exactly, however in war civilian factories have to turn into military most of the time especially in a doctrine where motor vehicles were used all of the time.
In a hypothetical world they may have gotten their cars if it wasn’t for hitlers dream to take back what his country has lost.