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#BreakingNews #DE #Economy

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*OMG!*

*The "Germany Corporation# (#Deutschland AG] has sclerosis:*

Via #ZDF:

" #VW wants to close at least three "German plants

According to the works council, #Volkswagen wants to close at least three plants in #Germany and cut tens of thousands of jobs. All
remaining other plants are 2 shrink.." 1)

*Putin will dance...in a future war economy, carmakers will be needed again...*

From #NDR

👉*Founding of the Volkswagen plant:..

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https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/unternehmen/vw-werke-schliessungen-deutschland-arbeitsplaetze-100.html#at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=ZDFheuteApp&at_specific=ZDFheute&at_content=Android

in reply to HistoPol (#HP)

#BreakingNews #DE #Economy #Volkswagen #History

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...car factory was first used for armaments*

Status: 10/28/2024 11:30 a.m.

'A #Volkswagen for everyone,' that's what the #Nazis promised the #Germans. On May 26 👉1938, they laid the foundation stone for the #VW plant - and produced armaments there [instead..."👈 2)

"👉More than 60,000 units [of the military, so called "#Kübelwagen" 3)] were supplied by #VW to the #Wehrmacht and #SS...

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https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Gruendung-des-Volkswagenwerks-Autofabrik-diente-erst-der-Ruestung,vwwerk2.html?origin=serp_auto

in reply to HistoPol (#HP)

#Volkswagen #History

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...for the #German war of extermination, as well as fighter planes, mines, and aerial bombs. 👈

In return, the #VW plant was allowed to call itself a "#War Model Factory" and was also awarded the honorary title of "National Socialist Model Factory".

👉By the end of the war, only 630 civilian vehicles had left the plant--for leading #NSDAP functionaries [only.]👈

The real triumph of the "#Beetle" as a...

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https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Typ_82

in reply to HistoPol (#HP)

#Volkswagen #NS #History

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...symbol of the economic miracle [the "people's car, #Volkswagen,] was to begin [much] later."

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