Comment by funnytoenail on 12/03/2025 at 14:05 UTC

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View submission: the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago

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No it didn’t not. After the first year or so of production, the nazi regime siphoned off the money the masses paid into the VW scheme into its war machine. It was literally a state funded Ponzi scheme.

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Comment by OneBangMan at 12/03/2025 at 14:07 UTC

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The idea of it would have, if the war hadn’t of started and it followed through then it would have made it accessible and affordable for the average German.