Seems the Porsche factory doesn't like SOME of its founders past.....| Off-Topic Discussion forum |

oldeskewltoy Dork
3/21/14 3:22 p.m.

Yahoo News... said: Porsche for joining the Nazi SS paramilitary group before the war, and deplored that prisoners of war were used as slave labour at the Volkswagen car plant in Wolfsburg, Germany when Porsche was general manager. "He was a Nazi. History books don't lie,"

http://news.yahoo.com/nazi-past-overshadows-genius-porsche-050139724.html

Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
3/21/14 3:28 p.m.

He was just following orders!

yamaha UltimaDork
3/21/14 3:59 p.m.

I thought nothing happened during that time and all of Germany was on vacation outside of Moscow......

spitfirebill UberDork
3/21/14 4:08 p.m.

Was he really a member of the SS? Was he like a mascot?

mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
3/21/14 4:14 p.m.

yamaha wrote: I thought nothing happened during that time and all of Germany was on vacation outside of Moscow......

I heard they wanted to vacation in the UK, but the dreary weather kept them away

ThunderCougarFalconGoat Reader
3/21/14 4:19 p.m.

There was also their second holiday in France during that time. I heard they had such a good time there before...

aircooled UltimaDork
3/21/14 4:35 p.m.

Hey, don't forget about that holiday time in North Africa and the Mediterranean! Prime vacationing down there.

There were also a few Atlantic cruises in there (don't get fat on all the food).

Appleseed UltimaDork
3/21/14 10:20 p.m.

He was just building tanks.

Appleseed UltimaDork
3/21/14 10:23 p.m.

I remember a display at a late 90s auto show featuring JEEP. They had a Willys MB all set up WWII style. The Daimler part of Daimler-Chrysler was conspicuously absent.

Kramer HalfDork
3/21/14 10:27 p.m.

Henry Ford was very anti-semitic, and proud to be so. He may have agreed with Porsche an many fronts. The current companies somehow grew despite these men, and now bear no resemblance to their past. History is interesting, though.

yamaha UltimaDork
3/21/14 11:08 p.m.

In reply to aircooled:

Nor those weekends cruises to south america.......heck, if only they could have controlled those German pirates out in the Atlantic.