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the G-man said:
Technically, however, Volvo is owned by Ford now, so you can rest easy.


Ford was a big racist who had admiration for Nazi Germany and personally published several copies of the Elders of Zion book which he believed was real, despite having been debunked years earlier.




Ford's auto manufacturing was also admired by Hitler.

Hitler implemented design of a Volkswagen ("the people's car"), and instructed its engineers to design a mass-produced car that could be affordable to every family in Germany. Design began in 1934, and after experiments with several prototypes, the first Volkswagen came off the line in a big swastika-laden ceremony in May 1938.
About 300 Volkswagen Beetles were produced before all production was diverted to war materials. And the few that were produced never were utilized by the common people, only V.I.P.'s in the Nazi Party.

During the war and postwar period, no VW's were produced (Germans, and other europeans, had their hands full just having food to eat in those years).

Production didn't begin again until 1952. The stigma of buying anything German didn't subside until the early 1960's in the U.S., at which point they became very popular here in the 60's and 70's.



Conversely, the U.S. was inspired Germany's Autobahn highway system, that Eisenhower and other higher-ups observed in the conquest of Germany.
Which resulted in construcion of a similar highway system in the U.S., in the postwar years.