KDF VW Cog Wheel HubCaps

[yel-mel]

Does anyone have the KDF Cog logo style hubcaps ?

I have only seen them in pictures....never on an actual bug or spinning wheel.

Any opinions on these ?

[Helfen]

KDF swastika hub caps and KDF 4 year plan hub caps are for sale in the classified section of the Samba.
OK to use on a Pre, & during the war cars (1938-1945) as far as I'm concerned. After that, the Nazi thing and it's symbols are things of the past and should not be brought into the future for a host of reasons.

[RareAir]

[Helfen]

[Bustercat65]

you might get some looks and questions.
Personally I think the contrast between the pre-war and post-war VW vibe is fascinating, even absurdly funny (hence my silly avatar)
KDF wagen also one of the few really positive things to come out of a deeply ugly regime and dark era.
To be frank, it's silly that historical communist-related stuff/kitsch gets such acceptance, while nazi/fascist stuff is still so outrageous even in innocuous forms. It's not like both ideologies didn't murder and hurt a lot of people and dumb political fringes aren't trying to resurrect both.

Go for it, but be ready to either tell people to kiss your butt or fall over yourself explaining you aren't literally hitler.

[Sharp64]

Your car, do what you want. Personally not really my style, but not because of any stigmatism. If I was running a ratrod or something I’d probably rock em and not give a crap what anyone thinks about it. Snowflakes be damned.
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[Helfen]

[Joe 20]

I know it housed German refugees (Sudetenland Germans) till the mid 60"s. Don't know about the "killing machine" part so long after the war. Maybe you can enlighten us?
Dachau was the first detention camp used by the Nazi's. It never was a death camp by definition. Ever been there? A very sad place. I don't remember hearing a bird sing even though it was a bright, sunny day...

[yel-mel]

To be honest I just thought they were sort of cool looking in terms of design.
I am speaking of the ones for sale by Foreign Concepts.
I was not at all thinking any political implications or links to Nazi or Hitler type stuff....that never crossed my mind. If that's what people jump to now days it sound like a bad idea.
The world has become a very strange & politically correct place.

[Helfen]

[Sharp64]

Maybe it’s time to put an end to that nonsense and realize it’s just a symbol. It holds no inherent power either real or implied unless we give it power. It’s an inanimate object. Rock it if you like the design.
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1960 Indigo Blue Ragtop (Blue Barry)
1967 Ghia
1985 Westy Money Pit
“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” - Michael Caine

[Helfen]

Depends on how you look at yourself and how others might look at you. If you use old Nazi symbols, symbols that Neo-Nazi's use today you are associating yourself to that and also how people size you up as a individual. Want to associate yourself with that? Fine.

[Sharp64]

We’re not talking about walking around in SS uniforms and painting huge swastikas all over the car. But running stylized hubcaps with an abstract design? Cmon. That’s like bitching about the iron cross imagery I see used all the time in the ratrod scene. Again, nothing has power unless you give it power. It’s been over 75 years, people need to let it go.
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1960 Indigo Blue Ragtop (Blue Barry)
1967 Ghia
1985 Westy Money Pit
“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” - Michael Caine

[Helfen]

[Sharp64]

Oh good Lord.

Irony is that I get more annoyed at people painting hippy crap all over their cars than I do about this sort of nonsense. (No offense HippyTom)Most are too young to have actually been involved with the hippy scene or even know much about it other than tie dye and smoking weed. I get tired of people expecting some pot smoking hippy to jump out of my VWs or think I relate in anyway to the hippy culture. But if people want to paint their car like it or perpetuate that, more power to them.

BTW, just as a quick test I texted a picture of the KDF design to 10 of my family members and not a single one identified it as having anything to do with a swastika or Nazi party. Which is my point in that so few people even know about this stuff anymore, nor do they care. The only people giving it power are the ones letting it offend them. Get over it.
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1960 Indigo Blue Ragtop (Blue Barry)
1967 Ghia
1985 Westy Money Pit
“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” - Michael Caine

[Helfen]

Oh good Lord, Please teach people to look out for themselves.

Those that forget history, or a education system that teaches selective history are doomed to repeat it.

[EverettB]

The original posters questions has been answered and now we are just arguing.

Locked.
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