Behind the Bastards has a really good episode on Volkswagen. I might have some of the details wrong, but the German government was subsidizing them for a while with the dream of having every citizen driving a Volkswagen. After the war they ended up getting involved in slave operated meat farms in Brazil.
Behind the Bastards has a really good episode on Volkswagen. I might have some of the details wrong, but the German government was subsidizing them for a while with the dream of having every citizen driving a Volkswagen.
Correct! The Nazi government tried to push a payment plan onto people, even. The people who paid into the scam fundraising effort but did not receive a car (ie all of them, as no cars were actually delivered) eventually sued after the war to get some small percentage of their money back.
Behind the Bastards has a really good episode on Volkswagen. I might have some of the details wrong, but the German government was subsidizing them for a while with the dream of having every citizen driving a Volkswagen. After the war they ended up getting involved in slave operated meat farms in Brazil.
Correct! The Nazi government tried to push a payment plan onto people, even. The people who paid into the
scamfundraising effort but did not receive a car (ie all of them, as no cars were actually delivered) eventually sued after the war to get some small percentage of their money back.They were never delivered?? I was familiar with the story but no one had ever mentioned that before, that seems pretty fuckin important 😅
Just a hop, skip, and trip into slave-operated meat farms. The pipeline from car manufacterer to slaver is strangely efficient.