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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:..
Betriebsrat: VW schließt mindestens drei deutsche Werke
Volkswagen will nach Angaben des Betriebsrats mindestens drei Werke in Deutschland schließen und zehntausende Arbeitsplätze abbauen. Alle verbleibenden Standorte sollen schrumpfen.ZDFheute
HistoPol (#HP)
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...
2)
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Gruendung-des-Volkswagenwerks-Autofabrik-diente-erst-der-Ruestung,vwwerk2.html?origin=serp_auto
Gründung des Volkswagenwerks: Autofabrik diente erst der Rüstung
Malte Krebs (NDR)HistoPol (#HP)
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...
3)
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Typ_82
Militärfahrzeug auf der Basis des KdF-Wagens
Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)HistoPol (#HP)
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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