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JCTango - Mar 16, 2002

		JCTango		Mar 16, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company Apparently, they were both founded by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Leader. I heard this in my Critical Thinking class...my prof told me about this... Wow... didn't know this

		ExCyber		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company I heard the Beetle was initally a collaboration between Hitler and Porsche, but that it became a government project when Hitler came to power. All in all, didn't find it too shocking...

Quadriflax

Mar 17, 2002

The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company

	
	
		
		
			Quote: from JCTango on 12:52 am on Mar. 17, 2002



Apparently, they were both founded by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Leader. I heard this in my Critical Thinking class...my prof told me about this... Wow... didn't know this

Doesn't Volkswagen mean "People's Car" or something like that? It was meant to be a car that everyone could afford.

		SkankinMonkey		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company Yea, the company was founded with hitlers approval. Also BMW, and several other car manufacturers, and technology companies (IBM for one) helped develop technology and weaponry for germany during world war 2, and how did they get the labor for this? Jews, Gypsies, etc. Several books out on the subject at the moment.

		JCTango		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company ...so would we, the customers, who purchase Volkswagen products, be supporting the Nazis? hehe... even though they are long gone? :\| Persecution has always been a means to profit...It's history's lesson.

		Raijin Z		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company Everything you take for granted was built with the lives of people you never met, so don't worry about how many people died in the computer mines back in the 1800's.

ShinJedah

Mar 17, 2002

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			Quote: from JCTango on 2:42 pm on Mar. 17, 2002



...so would we, the customers, who purchase Volkswagen products, be supporting the Nazis? hehe... even though they are long gone? :|

The customers buying Volkswagen Products now are not supporting nazis since the money isn't use for nazi purposes.

The bad thing is that nazis aren't long gone...their still there..

		eatpenguin		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company you;ll see a LOT of conservative jewish people still ACTIVELY avoiding german-made cars today. and many koreans who avoid japanese-made cars. but as jedah said the money does not go toward nazis so why bother.

		SkankinMonkey		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company The reason a lot of people avoid these companies is that they actively deny ever have done anything that they did during the war. They pretend they never used slave labor for their gain, which is wrong.

		Raijin Z		Mar 17, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company Yet the very same people buy clothes made in sweatshops.

		eatpenguin		Mar 18, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company what can you say. we are all hypocritical. and materialistic, up to certain point.

		lancastoor		Mar 18, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company See, building up these companies were what got Hitler his power.. He took a country in complete ruin after the treaty of versaille, turned it into an economic powerhouse, impervious even to the great depression, and he did it by building military equipment. And, actually last year VW (i believe it was them) and BMW and some other companies (Singer, Bosch, #### cant remember) settled a huge class-action lawsuit, in which they basically admitted to and apologized for using forced labor during WWII, and payed big bucks to holocaust survivors and various anti-defamation organizations. it was a world war, btw. Where do you think all those tanks and planes and ships and whatnot came from? Mercedes, ford, chrystler, etc etc etc all profited off the war in a big way too. (America did virtually nothing but profit off the first world war). Everyone made money off WW2, thats what ended the great depression. (oversimplification, sure, but valid enough) America also interned 1000s of asian-americans and used them for labor. Thing is, war is ####, whether yer a nazi or not. Its just that history is written by the victors, thats why axis powers using forced labor was evil and allies using it was a 'regrettable wartime necessity'. (not defending nazi beliefs, just pointing out the inherent hypocrisy)

		SEGA DAVID		Mar 19, 2002
			The Autobahn & The Volkswagen Company #### i never knew about that interesting.....