The author recounts the fascinating history of the "beetle." How the German auto manufacturers under Hitler tried to test the VW to death. How a colorful, controversial supersalesman from Germany charmed, bullied and argued a small group of Americans into becoming millionaires by selling VW's (the VW way) when no Americans seemed to want them. This is the story of the birth, the development, the growth, the problems, the fantastic success, the jokes, the cult, the appeal - the whole story of the Volkswagen, told in a readable and entertaining manner.
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The only story of the history of VOLKSWAGEN,
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This review is from: Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen. (Paperback)
This book starts with the early beginings of Ferdinand Porsch and relates the entire story of his career as an auto maker , then as the father of the VW beetle. This is the most complete accounting on the involvement of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party through the war years, and the saving of the factory by the British Army and Major Ivan Hirst. This book also tells the story of Heinz Nordhoff,President of VW from 1946 till his death in 1967. He is the man rsponsible for the VW Beetle becoming the most manufactured car in world history
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