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PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

drscope wrote:
Henry Ford’s Model T was often referred to as a People’s Car and it certainly predated the Kdf or the Volkswagen.

Quite right drscope, albeit with some shadowy and questionable motivations intermixed. Rolling Eyes
"Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford. These are not names you usually link together, but they both had a strange mutual understanding and admiration for each other.
It is common knowledge that Ford revolutionized the world of transportation and mass production with his Ford automobile plants that started in the United States and expanded into other parts of the world. What is not as well known is his fervent hatred towards Jewish people (a hatred shared by fellow super-financier J.P. Morgan) and Ford's flagrant financial and political backing of Adolf Hitler. As author Antony C. Sutton wrote in his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Henry Ford is something of an enigma, understanding his influence on the Western world is complicated and at times strange and sad.

Ford created the assembly line production of automobiles that revolutionized industrial production. The assembly line de-emphasized individual human creation and emphasized quick assembly of a machine with the help of humans in a machine-like, repetitive motion. For Ford people were labor, the abhorrent capitalism that Marx had railed against in his writings of the 1880's that inspired the Bolshevik revolution. Hitler believed in the master race as a similar cog in his machine in controlling Europe and then the world; both believed that Jews were not to be a part of either the master race or the new assembly-line human." Where that leaves 'the peoples' car, the Hasidic race or the VW is less clear. Wonder if the two 'success stories' had swapped places?...I have my own theories on that , though will leave it there.Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 5:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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belgianboxer wrote:
The fact that the car is a 'Split Window' is obvious, so it can be left out...

So, why not use The First Beetle as main title...?
For the subtitle, I would opt for: Resurrection of a 1938 Volkswagen



Volkswagen didn't exist in 1938 Wink


Au contraire, the name of the project was always Volkswagen, from the beginnings in 1934. The KdF-wagen was the name of the product, as supplied from the Volkswagenwerke at Fallersleben. During the depth of war, a photo was taken of "the first kdf-wagens made in the Volkswagenwerke during 1942"

Then, on the other hand, the term Volkswagen was coined years before to other car projects, like Josef Ganz' beetle like contraption.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I read the first 63 pages and then skipped a but here and there, but man thus is just incredible. The attention to details and all the correct parts finding its way back to this car is phenomenal.

I will definitely get a few copies of the English book and will go back and read every page Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's been so quiet lately. Any word on the English version's availability?!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 1:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You can order the book here:

http://www.delius-klasing.de/buecher/The+First+Beetle.187982.html
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You can order the book here:

http://www.delius-klasing.de/buecher/The+First+Beetle.187982.html

Yay! Thank heavens! Cool Idea Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Axel, Congratulations. One question, is it a straight translation or have the contents been edited? To put it another way, I have the german book, do I need the english book if I can read German?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Axel!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For UK readers, http://www.bookdepository.com/First-Beetle-Clauspe...c31ec5be8b is a good place to get it.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just ordered mine

Thank you for all your efforts. Fantastic story of survival. Read through this thread a number of times, never get tired of it.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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For UK readers, http://www.bookdepository.com/First-Beetle-Clauspe...c31ec5be8b is a good place to get it.


Thanks Iain! Free shipping worldwide to boot! Just ordered Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes indeed! I've ordered a copy, too. When I get it, who wants my German language version? Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Axel, Congratulations. One question, is it a straight translation or have the contents been edited? To put it another way, I have the german book, do I need the english book if I can read German?


as i know, the translation based on the german version. No new informations or content.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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For UK readers, http://www.bookdepository.com/First-Beetle-Clauspe...c31ec5be8b is a good place to get it.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just to be accurate and confirm.. the version in the link below is an English version?
Are there any other links for English version sales?

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You can order the book here:

http://www.delius-klasing.de/buecher/The+First+Beetle.187982.html

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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For UK readers, http://www.bookdepository.com/First-Beetle-Clauspe...c31ec5be8b is a good place to get it.


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They must have run out, due to unprecedented demand! I managed to order one from them yesterday.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Iain wrote:
For UK readers, http://www.bookdepository.com/First-Beetle-Clauspe...c31ec5be8b is a good place to get it.


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They must have run out, due to unprecedented demand! I managed to order one from them yesterday.


I bought one this afternoon, must have got one of the last ones..
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2014 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's got to put a smile on your face every single time you drive it! I watched Jay Leno's video again and had to wonder what it must feel like to take the wheel of one of 3 surviving prototype cars that started what would later become the most mass produced and loved cars to have ever been built. To think 4 years ago we were all hovering over this topic hour by hour to see if it was truly one of the prototypes and now it's cursing around Germany again for everyone to see and enjoy!
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iain wrote:
For UK readers, http://www.bookdepository.com/First-Beetle-Clauspe...c31ec5be8b is a good place to get it.


Thanks Iain, my copy arrived in the post today Smile
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:44 pm    Post subject: interesting find Reply with quote

gents and ladies
probably topic not relevant to this thread, so please excuse my ignorance. i've come across an interesting youtube video in my native tongue (polish), while watching documentaries on the Project Riese - a huge underground complex of factories / warehouses etc built by the Nazi's in occupied Poland, Slask (Silesia) region. browsing thru all related videos i stumbled across an amateur video, in which 2 guys were describing a partially collapsed old nazi bunker in the area, with ceiling held up by ''what appeared to be remnants of an old army volkswagen...". I will try to find this video link this week and research the location - for anyone interested in holiday in Poland.
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