Porsche employed nazis even after the war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Peiper
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ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yikes, I also looked into the background of Ferdinand Porsche, and man, he was a real Nazi summabitch.
zer0@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
Schmuppes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everybody employed nazis after the war, including NASA. To an extent, the winners of the war silently agreed to let that slide.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hitler was directly behind the development of the VW Beetle with Porsche doing the engineering work.
evergreen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Porsche also stole many of the innovative design elements of their cars from a Czech auto manufacturer called Tatra, after the Nazis took over the factory.
Schmuppes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hitler was not “behind” the development. You make it sound like he was the lead designer, accountant and test driver. He said “I want you to develop a car that will seat four, reach 110 km/h and cost a maximum of 1000 Reichsmark”.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I literally said Porsche did the engineering. How would that make Hitler the lead designer?