VW Beetle

Hitler ordered the creation of the German people's car (Volkswagen), a new factory to build it, and a new town to house the factory workers. Despite the grand plans, only a few hundred Beetles were built before the war stopped production. At the end of the war, the VW factory at Wolfsburg was in the British controlled area of Germany. Ironically, for this the most German of cars, it was the British who got the Beetle back into production and started it on the path to the international success it would achieve with production of over 20 million units. Here, based on the memoirs of the people who were there, is the story of Wolsfsburg, the Beetle and the British, in the years 1945 to 1949.