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View submission: the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago
No it didn’t. My understanding is that millions of people put money in to purchase the cars but none were produced until after 1945 and I assume the money put in was used (to kill Russians/fund deathsquads) and never repaid.
More fun facts on the company at the time:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volkswagen-1#:~:text=Key%20Facts&text=The%20Volkswagen%20company%20originated%20during,car%20for%20the%20German%20people.&text=Volkswagen%20used%20both%20Jewish%20and,labor%2C%20primarily%20from%20eastern%20Europe.&text=The%20company%20operated%20four%20concentration,labor%20camps%20on%20its%20property[1].
Comment by Epcplayer at 12/03/2025 at 20:42 UTC
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That was my first thought as well lol. From my other comment
336,000 people bought into the program, and none received a car. The program wasn’t sustainable, and needed government funding to break even… seeing as Hitler always intended on going to war (he wasn’t the one who got invaded), it was always a Ponzi scheme intended to massively ramp up military production in an explainable manner (think launching rockets into space for “science” purposes).
It’s crazy the propaganda that people still fall for to this day.
Comment by OneBangMan at 12/03/2025 at 14:04 UTC
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The sheer idea of the car though made it more accessible and affordable. They just stopped at the beginning of the war jsut like most countries would.
And from where I read it was around 350k that put into itz