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KTPhil 
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 Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:01 pm Post subject: A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz book cover |
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This is a book about a holocaust survivor.
For a generation the VW Beetle was associated with Germany, a subset with Nazi Germany.
But it seems out of place, or at least sloppy history, to associate the Beetle with Auschwitz. It even looks to be an Oval, built eight years after the war ended.
I have not read the book to see if he drove this car after the war, but that seems doubtful.
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Agreed. The whole "Hitler's revenge' BS was never a Jewish thing as far as I know, I only heard it from rednecks.
I haven't read the book, so maybe there's a connection there that's not mentioned in the short review on that page? |
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static
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Agreed. The whole "Hitler's revenge' BS was never a Jewish thing as far as I know, I only heard it from rednecks.
I haven't read the book, so maybe there's a connection there that's not mentioned in the short review on that page? |
http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_ce...r_2013.pdf |
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KTPhil
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Agreed. The whole "Hitler's revenge' BS was never a Jewish thing as far as I know, I only heard it from rednecks.
I haven't read the book, so maybe there's a connection there that's not mentioned in the short review on that page? |
http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_ce...r_2013.pdf |
No slight against the victims your link describes, but I don't see how it answers my question about this book's postwar portrayal of the victims. Forced labor in the VW plant is clear, but I don't believe it happened in the 1950s as the cover photo vaguely suggests. |
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static
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I was not responding to you, which is why I didn't quote you.
It appears your complaint is with the newspaper using an erroneous illustration. |
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KTPhil
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I was not responding to you, which is why I didn't quote you.
It appears your complaint is with the newspaper using an erroneous illustration. |
Thanks for clarifying. It's an ugly story of ugly times and something we must not forget, lest we repeat it.
My compliant, though, is not with the newspaper, but with the book (publisher/author): the illustration is of the book cover itself, which has a postwar Bug. Just seems strange and a misplaced association, at least for those who know the whole story-- the good, bad and ugly. |
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Agreed. The whole "Hitler's revenge' BS was never a Jewish thing as far as I know, I only heard it from rednecks.
I haven't read the book, so maybe there's a connection there that's not mentioned in the short review on that page? |
http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_ce...r_2013.pdf |
I'll stand by my statement. My Father drove VWs almost his whole adult life and parked them in front of Temple every Saturday. not once did we hear any crap from my Jewish friends, but the yellow teeth overall crowd in HS used to love to give me crap about them.
There's no question that German industry used slave labor but I don't see a picture of a Krups coffee maker on that book, or 'The Ultimate driving machine' or Bayer aspirin, who did in fact use labor from Auschwitz. The VW is a device to grab your eye, and an unfair target in this case. |
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static
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That's true.
The early VW dealers on the East Coast were all (as far as I know) Jewish (as am I.) |
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| What's funny is that I had ex Navy relatives that wouldn't drive a Toyota to save their lives and thought it was an insult that Mitsubishi even existed, but my father used to drive VWs, and the only complaint I ever heard from my grandfather was that it was too cold. he used to get into the squareback and start bitching at my dad, "what, you hanging meat in here or something?" |
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