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History of VW beetle | Story of Hitler's famous Volkswagen

  Story When Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany  he wanted to build a low priced compact car which can be purchased by every citizen of his country and which can travel on his country's newly builded roads so he gave Ferdinand Porsche this task to produce the people's car. He produced several prototype models of the vintage beetle. The original beetle rolled of the production line in 1935 and soon became one of the most selling , affordable and low maintenance compact car on the road.  1935 VW beetle Although it's designed was ready in 1930's but due to world war II they had to wait till 1940's to began production of civilian beetle's. The company internally designated the car as Volkswagen Type 1 but in the market it was known as Volkswagen which means people's car. In Germany it was known by the name "Kafer" which means beetle. In France it took the name "Coccinelle" meaning lady Bug. Soon its sales increased and the company...