The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler’s Volkswagen

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[virgil283]

"The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz” tells the astonishing story of Josef Ganz, a Jewish engineer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car. In 1923, as a student, Ganz started development of an innovative little car with a mid-mounted engine, independent wheel suspension, and a streamlined body.... In 1930, the Ardie motorcycle company from Nuremberg gave Ganz the opportunity to build a first prototype of his Volkswagen. The prototype featured a central backbone chassis with a mid-mounted engine, independent all-round suspension with swing axles, and simple, open, beetle-shaped bodywork.......

(the 1931 Beetle-like Mercedes-Benz 120H prototype with a rear-mounted engine)

[virgil283]

....."Hitler .... praised the work of the German engineers and during his tour of the exhibits expressed serious interest in the Standard Superior and the idea of a Volkswagen to motorize the German people. One of the first new laws introduced by his office was that holders of a motorcycle-driving license could operate small cars like the Standard Superior..... Hitler by then was determined to support the development of a Volkswagen for the German people. Having found no cooperation amongst the big car manufacturers, an independent development consortium was created, led by Ferdinand Porsche. As a Jew, Josef Ganz was an impossible choice. Porsche was now set the task to design a people’s car for 1,000 Reichsmark – a maximum selling price propagated by Ganz in Motor-Kritik.

The Nazis made sure that any Jewish connections to the Volkswagen were erased from history. They banned Ganz from publishing, as well as the entire German press from publishing anything about him. Overnight the name Josef Ganz disappeared from the German motoring scene.

(standard Superior as displayed at the 1933 Berlin motor show)

Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/04/jewish-engineer-behind-hitlers.html#ADMEC4jdvvdmkf7A.99

[TheThirdRuffian]

Amazing.

I consider the bug and the 4 cylinder aircooled engine to be among the greatest engineering achievments of man.

I see people driving 1960s bugs all the time as daily drivers. They just keep going and going.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Interesting!

[Jane Long]

And, most repairs can be made with a butter knife!

[lbryce]

The irony of Germany's total disavowal of Jewish knowledge, expertise, technical prowess is the underlying reason for never being close to creating their own atomb bomb. To facilitate the science and physics involved in a German atom would have required them to subscribe to Jewish creativity, genius. The fact is, the process of creating the atom bomb was the result of varied, interconnected aspects of science and physics ultimately coming to fruition by a team of nine specialists all of whom were Jewish. That is, the world owes the creation of the atom bomb to the Jews, plain and simple.

The lesser ironies of Jews involved in Germany's war effort, genocide was the use of Zyklon-B as the instrument of death for most Holocaust victims. Xyklon-B was the poison of choice used to kill the Jews in the gas chambers, invented as an insecticide during World War I by a Jewish scientist.

[blackdog]

The engine design is the favored powerplant for just about every airplane in general aviation, just bigger jugs and fuel injection.

I did several rebuilds of my VW engine when I was in high school and college. New rings, bearings, valves, seals and gaskets ran about $65. One person could do it in 4 hours and one six pack.

[virgil283]

"One person could do it in 4 hours and one six pack....A neighbors son could hot wire and drive off in a VW in less than 2 minutes....He could drop the engine and drive off with it in 15....It took a lot of convincing from his Dad to stop him doing that...

[painter]

I knew a lady,when she was a teenager her dad was big into VW bugs. She would help her dad work on them.One night she was on the way home from somewhere and the fan belt broke. he used her pantyhose as a replacement belt to get home.

[BBell]

This is my favorite

[Vroomfondel]

"One person could do it in 4 hours and one six pack....A neighbors son could hot wire and drive off in a VW in less than 2 minutes....He could drop the engine and drive off with it in 15....It took a lot of convincing from his Dad to stop him doing that...

I'm an Army brat who spent some time growing up in Germany.

I knew some folks who would make extra cash on the weekend by loading a rebuilt engine into their truck and roaming the autobahns until they found a sad Beetle on the side of the road. They'd sell the engine to the poor fellow, swap it right there, and take his engine back and rebuild it for the next round.

[lbryce]

This is not "Storm Front"or any number of gay nazi sites you frequent.

I suggest that you contact your veterinarian to request to have your dosage of 'Zyklon B' doubled, as it seems you're still not anywhere near being deloused.

Wikipedia::Zyklon B:Infamous for Its Later Use by Nazi Germany to Murder an Estimated 1.2 Million Human Beings, Including Approximately 960,000 Jews, In Gas Chambers of Extermination Camps During the Holocaust.

Wikipedia
This article is about the cyanide-based pesticide used against humans during the Holocaust. For the Norwegian black metal band, see Zyklon-B (band).

Zyklon B (German pronunciation: [tsykloːn ˈbeː]; also spelled Cyclon B or Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in the early 1920s and infamous for its later use by Nazi Germany to murder an estimated 1.2 million human beings, including approximately 960,000 Jews, in gas chambers of extermination camps during the Holocaust. [1] Zyklon B consisted of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), a stabilizer, a warning odorant (ethyl bromoacetate), and one of several adsorbents.

Zyklon A was a previously produced liquid pesticide, which released hydrogen cyanide in a chemical reaction with water. After the invention of Zyklon B, its production was stopped.

One of the co-inventors of Zyklon B, the chemist and businessman Bruno Tesch, was executed by the British in 1946 for his role in the Holocaust.

[Lee N. Field]

I see people driving 1960s bugs all the time as daily drivers. They just keep going and going.

Alas, in this state road salt used in the winter will rot out VW bug floorpans long before the rest of it is worn out. That was the undoing of my 1970 Beetle.

I still sometimes dream about that car, 30 years after I last had it.

[Yardstick]

I saw a vintage beetle on the road just yesterday, fully restored, and was thinking about how cool it looked and how much fun it would be to own one.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks virgil283.

[TheThirdRuffian]

This is a pro-USA, pro-God, pro-Israel, website.

Go take your Nazi crap somewhere else.

[TheThirdRuffian]

“this state road salt used in the winter will rot out VW bug floorpans long before the rest of it is worn out.”

Ah, but they sell new, galvanized, ones for a couple hundred bucks. Just bolt on with a 10mm wrench.

(Restored a few bugs in my life.)

[dfwgator]

Appears Hitler made one change to the design, to put the exhaust pipe IN the car.

That was how the first gassings took place, by having Vans that would pipe in the engine exhaust. Of course it was deemed too inefficient.