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This is the exciting, fascinating saga of the creation of the world's most popular car, the famed Volkswagen Beetle, under the Nazi regime of German dictator Adolf Hitler, who played a pivotal role in its design, construction, and marketing during 1933-1938. It is also the story of the two Drs. Porsches who created it – Ferdinand, Sr., and his son, Ferry – as well as Dr. Robert Ley's German Labor Front that built it, and Adolf Huhnlein's Nazi Motor Corps that helped popularize driving and made motoring a reality in the Third Reich. The VW Beetle helped rescue Germany's economy twice –before the war and afterward – sparking the postwar “German economic miracle” that continues to this very day. ILLUSTRATIONS: 150 colour & b/w images *

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