Winthrop Tremaine

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Mon Aug 27 18:15:48 CDT 2001


Dave Monroe wrote:

>  Volkswagens having been designed and built initially
> as wagens for the Volk of the Third Reich, of course.
> Cf. "Sick Dick and the Volkswagens" (p. 23), or
> Richard M. Zhlubb's "managerial Volkswagen" near the
> end of Gravity's Rainbow ...

I seem to remember that the first design of what was to become the "Beetle" was
drawn by Adolf Hitler.

Thomas




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