[OttawaFreeper]

I recall reading about how Volkswagen was known as “The Peoples Car” during the Hitler years in Germany. Didn’t seem to stop the Beetle or the van from becoming hip vehicles during the 1960s.

[hanamizu]

I recall reading about how Volkswagen was known as “The Peoples Car” during the Hitler years in Germany.

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Like so many things associated with the Nazis, the Peoples Car was a bit of a con job to get money out of the citizenry. Every week you’d pay a mark (or five?, something like that) and fill up a little book with official receipts. If you missed a week, you lost your money and had to start over. When the book was full, you got your car. Ah, but the war started and no one who paid into the scheme ever got his car.

[blackdog]

It was the people's car because that's what Volks (people) and wagon (car) in German. The German language is weird that way. They string four words into one.

Mullautohintendraufsteher

This is another long German word that would be very hard to fit on a name tag. However, if you are the “garbage collector at the back of the truck”, you might try to do just that.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Volkswagen Beetle was really an early Porsche, too.

-PJ