Apocalypse: The Second World War - 1/6 - Assault (1933 to -1939) HD
That day in 1944, under the threat of Allied bombing during World War II, the German automaker Volkswagen stopped production of the Beetle, as its small car shaped insect has been dubbed by the international press.
Ten years ago, the renowned automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche had signed a contract with the Third Reich to develop a prototype of the car of an affordable little people Germany German Chancellor, the Nazi National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler, called the car KdF Kraft durch -Freude -Wagen or car Strength-through-Joy, after a movement led by the Nazis ostensibly intended to help workers in Germany Porsche didn t like nickname; he preferred Volkswagen means people's car, the name under which the car was originally developed in 1938, the government built a plant to produce the car in the town of KdF-stat The first Beetle production-ready debuted at Berlin Exhibition 1939 a few months later, Germany invaded Poland, triggering the conflict that would explode in the World war.
During the war years, the German need for a light commercial vehicle army has priority over the production of passenger cars affordable The result was the type Kubelwagen 62, a convertible vehicle with a modified Beetle chassis, four doors and 18-inch wheels in relation to the Beetle of 16-inch to give it a better ground clearance Although production to KdF-stat factory was devoted mainly to the Kubelwagen and its amphibious counterpart Schwimmwagen, the not plant continues to produce beetles 1941-7 August 1944, when production was halted under the threat of allied bombing.
In the Aftermath of War, a divided Germany was devastated by four sectors under the British, French and American control would combine to form West Germany, while under Soviet control region became East Germany KdF- stat soon renamed Wolfsburg, who was in the British sector, and its car plant were relatively in good shape for being a target of Allied bombs Volkswagen, then under the control of the British army, began to turn again beetles in December 1945, by 1949, the company now called Volkswagen GmbH was back in German hands, and in 1972 adopted the Beetle's iconic Ford model T as the best selling car in history.
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