Photo Gallery: The People's Car

07/21/2009

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Car designer Ferdinand Porsche (1875 - 1951) was awarded the contract to...
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Car designer Ferdinand Porsche (1875 - 1951) was awarded the contract to produce the Volkswagen Beetle after his design for a "people's car" was chosen by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Porsche was apparently more interested in technical challenges than in the question of who he was working for.

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