The VW Beetle has the Nazis to thank for its existence. Adolf Hitler laid the cornerstone of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg 80 years ago. Here, a critical retrospective of a German success story.

An idea that came from Hitler would become the best-selling car of all time. Jonathan Glancey explains our enduring love for the Volkswagen Beetle. In 1945, a rare and curious Volkswagen car was ...

Hitler met with Porsche about designing his people's car in the early '30s, so the Beetle's origins extend to before WWII began. Volkswagen began selling the car in 1938 as the KdF (Kraft durch ...

The fundamental idea behind Volkswagen, and the idea that gave the company its name, is the idea of a people's car.A car that's affordable and practical enough for almost everyone to own one.

Adolf Hitler stole the idea for the iconic Volkswagen Beetle from a Jewish engineer and had him written out of history, a historian has sensationally claimed.. The Nazi leader has always been ...

VW said in the filing that it can't get a fair trial "in an atmosphere in which pretrial publicity has connected it directly with Hitler and the Holocaust and other horrors." ...

Adolph Hitler's "People's Car" first came to America in 1949, and by the time it was banned in 1977, VW had sold 21,529,464 units, more than any other car in history.

It was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche as the Volkswagen, or "people's car," to reinvigorate Nazi Germany's economy and make the country mobile.

A lot of people are very upset about Volkswagen's ongoing diesel emissions cheating scandal: the EPA, TDI owners, and VW officials themselves. But likely no one is as outraged as the Führer ...

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler admires a model of the Volkswagen Beetle and is amused to find the engine in the back. He is with the designer Ferdinand Porsche, left.

An idea that came from Hitler would become the best-selling car of all time. Jonathan Glancey explains our enduring love for the Volkswagen Beetle. In 1945, a rare and curious Volkswagen car was ...