Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Der Fuhrermobile

Kraft durch Freude means "strength through joy" and was Adolph Hitler's pet project of making Germans into happy fighting machines by getting them out of the house and into the country in their very own Fuhrermobile.

An excited Adolph Hilter drew this picture in a restaurant in Munich in 1932, and presented it to Jakob Werlin, the head of Daimler-Benz.
Clearly, it went on to become the Volkswagen Beetle.

But really only the convertible beetle looked truly Hitleresque, I think.

Take a look at this picture:

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