Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Name of Adolf Hitler's personal paper is Völkischer Beobachter which might be translated "Folksy Observer," and one of his pet projects is the Volkswagen or "Folksy Automobile." Last week Der Führer opened the 11h annual Berlin Auto Show with a spectacular review of 10,000 Nazis. Through cleared Berlin streets the greatest German racing drivers roared with flame-belching exhausts and brakes screaming as they took street corners in breakneck "skid-turns...
...seater with a two-cylinder engine. In Europe, however, the credo that "an automobile is an expensive luxury" dies hard. Today the sort of German capitalists who financed Adolf Hitler in the first place are in panic at his "inflexible resolve" that they shall offer the German folk a volkswagen at a folksy price. Thus far 30 second-stage "experimental volkswagen" have been built in Germany after testing three first-stage experimental models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder, 23 h. p. Opel offered...
...There must be only one type of volkswagen manufactured by our various German factories to insure the greatest economy and efficiency!" ultimatumed the Dictator last week. "When I compare some economic policies with our National Socialist program I come to this conclusion: Marxism demands more wages, National Socialism more production. The first means paper and the second products...