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Battle for the beetle : the untold story of the post-war battle for Adolph Hitler's giant Volkswagen factory and the Porsche-designed car that became an icon for generations around the globe by Karl Ludvigsen, foreword by Ivan Hirst is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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After World War II what was to be the fate of the odd bug-shaped Volkswagen Beetle and its colossal bomb-battered factory? Legend has it that the victors underestimated the potential of the car that would become the automotive icon of several generations, indeed the world's most-famous and most-produced automobile. Karl Ludvigsen's interviews and researches in British, German, American, Australian and Belgian archives prove the contrary. His hitherto-untold story of why and how they didn't get the factory makes revealing and engrossing reading. History buffs and followers of World War II and its aftermath will relish the way Ludvigsen depicts afresh the creation of the VW by renowned and "untouchable" engineer Ferdinand Porsche, the building of its factory by Hitler crony Robert Ley, "a notorious womanizer who drank too much," and the wartime career of the huge Wolfsburg plant as the prime contractor for the jet-powered V-1 flying bomb, the world's first successful cruise missile. Car enthusiasts who consider themselves well-read will be absorbed by Ludvigsen's disclosures of the national and company mindsets that affected their respective attitudes toward the radical Volkswagen. M

Author

Karl Ludvigsen, foreword by Ivan Hirst

Publisher

Bentley Publishers

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780837600710

Subjects

Engineering, History, Language Learning

Rating

4.9 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14