Project Nazi: The Truth Behind Germany's Autobahn and People's Car | Full History Documentary

Adolf Hitler promises to make Germany great again by creating 22,000 kms of motorway and building one and half million “People’s Cars” every year. But in reality, millions of forced labourers are viciously exploited. Most of the promised motorways are never built. The “People’s Car” turns out to be a scam, as the Nazi party steals all the money paid for them.
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[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

"A failed project" - is still hugely successful, iconic even

[@bob456fk6]

The "curved path" is safer than a perfectly straight stretch of road because the driver has to remain alert. General Eisenhower was so impressed by the German autobahn, he advocated for the Interstate Highway System in the US after he became president. That was a tremendous improvement. In the '40's and '50's we had a lot of two lane roads and it was annoying (and dangerous) to pass slower cars.

[@martinkloosterman6747]

RUCHARD grijpma

[@mikebacherl2490]

General Eisenhower realized from the German Autobahn that America needed a modern highway system. He thought that it would really benefit the Nation in any major crisis!

[@behindthespotlight7983]

This whole documentary is rank revisionist history. Which is too bad because the filmmakers aggregated outstanding archival footage. But listening to these commentators has devolved from “hey wait a minute! What about….?” to essentially recognizing more propaganda of 21st century academia

[@Volcano-Man]

The 'Volkswagen' - 'People's Car' was so 'unsuccessful' it was produced into the 2000's - over 70 years.

[@MrTantrums007]

Adolf Hitler's Beetle was a huge success as was the autobahn.

[@brettadams6734]

Not in his time however. It was revived by the British to help rebuild, really.

[@Volcano-Man]

@@brettadams6734 It's nickname in the 1950's and 60's was 'Hitlers revenge on the free world!'

[@afzaalkhan.m]

It sold more cars than the T model. World's most successful car .ever

[@Volcano-Man]

It was in production for over 70 years. Strange if it was 'not very successful!'

[@oumaimarass4235]

And it was affordable , otherwise they would not have called it people's car.

[@grf15]

I was surprised to learn how few VW beetles they built by the end of the war. The number of kilometers of road was much less than I expected too.

[@ralfrufus6573]

It was all propaganda. In German they say: Mehr Schein als Sein!

[@simonh6371]

I'm commenting before finishing watching the doc so maybe you already found out why. The VW factory had to stop making them when war broke out, and had to make Kuebelwagen (amphibious jeeps) instead. A lot of Germans had paid instalments for cars which they never got.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Very well done documentary. Nice history lessons, especially the staggering numbers presented, with a great use of photos and video from the period. Excellent narration.

[@robertbench4664]

I was very surprised that the finish of this documentary failed to mention that it was the British Army that got the VW plant to finally make cars for the world,after it had been severely damaged in the war.

[@martynwaters2358]

Major Ivan Hirst (March 1 1916 - March 10 2000)

[@markpimlott2879]

If the critical role of British Major Ivan Hirst in creating the post WW2 Volkswagen company is not covered in detail in this documentary, then it's not worth watching! Without Major Hirst, there would not have been the worldwide rise of the world's most popular automobile, THE BEETLE and in fact even the world's fourth largest automaker VOLKSWAGEN GROUP AG!!

[@anthonynicholich9654]

Well let me help you open up your mind! I personally am very aware of that but it is insignificant and irrelevant because without American involvement English would have never been on a German soil not even cross the channel alone!

[@anthonynicholich9654]

​@@markpimlott2879 Completely irrelevant because without American involvement English alone would have never crossed the channel let alone be on a German soil

[@simonh6371]

@@anthonynicholich9654 Without the Italian Columbus and the Spanish monarchs Fernando and Isabel who sponsored him there would have been no European colonisation of the Americas so no USA. So by your logic this documentary should include a history of the Spanish reconquista in 1492 which led to those events.

[@williamegler8771]

How was the original Beetle a failure? It was one of the top-selling vehicles of all time and was the foundation of a company that eventually became one of the largest and most profitable vehicle manufacturers in the world.

[@gregoryhagen8801]

German engineering is world renowned. 🇩🇪

[@williamegler8771]

​@@gregoryhagen8801Danke! I am German and my father was an engineer for Daimler Benz for decades

[@paigetomkinson1137]

The "People's Car" was a failure because none were ever delivered to anyone within the Reich. Of course after the war, they did very well.

[@Volcano-Man]

@@gregoryhagen8801 That is debatable!

[@oumaimarass4235]

It could be debatable but I would like to know what brands other than German brands do you suggest ? Germany has a long-established reputation in engineering not only cars but also household appliances. Personally, all electric appliances in our house are of German brands and they're pretty efficient.

[@damonmelendez856]

31:38 ‘everyone having a role’ seems like a great idea. Yet this narrator doesn’t think so.

[@docnoc66]

Referred to as the KdF wagon

[@RonGreeneComedian]

The name of our interstate system is the Eisenhower interstate system. Eisenhower required every few miles, I think 5, of the interstate had to have at least a 2 mile stretch of road long enough for a B-52 to land. Remember, this was the height of the cold war. For a humorous take on the Cold War, I encourage you to watch Doctor Strangelove. For a serious take on it, I encourage you to watch the Bedford Incident, The Manchurian Candidate and other movies made between 1961 and '65.

[@oumaimarass4235]

It's true that the people's car was born in Germany but it's in the USA that it was carried out in practice and succeeded. The roaring twenties in particular were a time of economic boom and marked the peak of car industry .

[@paulrollwagen8012]

I do not know how is this failed project??? I still drive on his Autobahn Frankfurt-Darmstadt.

[@xirux01]

I think it was successful because the Autobahn (is well-known all around the world) and the beetle is well known too and the German car Industry are well-known for their quality and efficiency

[@jarikinnunen1718]

In that time other cheap cars was like chicken coops. Not like sport car KdF wagen.

[@Scooterdude01]

Can't handle the truth

[@American-Nobody]

Nice little word placement in your description although I don't remember 45 pushing a certain type of car. Unlike the 46 club who are trying very hard to force, We the Peeps to drive their versión of the "Peoples car."

[@paigetomkinson1137]

What make of car, pray tell, would that be?

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Oh, and Hitler did say he was going to "make Germany great again."

[@paigetomkinson1137]

And, for your knowledge, AH did say he would "make Germany great again," so the description is right on.

[@American-Nobody]

@@paigetomkinson1137 Ah, I Pee. 🤔

[@jmontarsi]

Very interesting documentary-especially the propaganda aspects.

[@stevegibb6421]

This doco seems confused as to what its actually. about. Also the subscribers to the car did in-fact receive discounted cars from Volkswagen around 1960 after some argument with the company

[@mikebacherl2490]

I realize this is hindsight...Hitler was amazingly inept as a leader in war and peace for the German People! I really believe that if Germany had persisted in pushing forward on industrialization in the Nation...the German People could have attained a high degree of success in achieving a decent standard of living for ALL their citizens. They were working their way out of the depression (Americans did). The War was a "waiste" of all the expended effort and money. Germany needed ALL of its People (Jews, minorities, etc.) to make its Nation a modern leader in Europe! Hitler had reached his "limit" as a leader of this Nation when he was willing to spend everything in a "vain" war. But, by this time , he had complete control over everything in Germany! What a megalomaniac ( and eventually...a thorough drug addict)! Let us remember...lest we are condemned to repeat this history!

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Bravo, Mike! Bravo.

[@anthonynicholich9654]

If everyone was as smart as you

[@volvo1354]

at least the vouchers saved up by workers before the war to buy a VW where honored by the company into the 1980s

[@chriscarrol9373]

Explained why Honda hasn't come out with a car called the " Kamakasi"

[@ralfrufus6573]

?

[@sakabula2357]

Kamakazi

[@ralfrufus6573]

@@sakabula2357 I still don't get it.

[@sakabula2357]

@ralfrufus6573 We are not all meant to get it Rufus....

[@scottmunsello0107]

VW is a huge success.

[@ralfrufus6573]

Betraying is their "honor", from the beginning they betrayed the people who saved their money for a VW, later they betrayed the people by false claims made about their engines ("Diesel-Skandal"). In Germany they got away with betrayals but in America VW was punished hard and had to pay many billions for the false claims made.

[@Rotebuehl1]

Exactly! Nowadays 'Volkswagen' is "simply" a brand, but the "people's car" corresponds exactly to the socialist mindset (Hitler said of himself that he was one!) that aims to "equalize" all and everything! In the end "equality" is not more than rhetoric leading to totalitarianism!!!

[@local_authority]

In carbon footprints?

[@simpinainteasy680]

​@@local_authorityimagine civilization sans ICE..we'd still be using horses

[@ronc7743]

​@@local_authority😢😢😢😢😢

[@ronmuller9671]

It might be of interest to read about an engineer by name of Josef Ganz, the true inventor of Volkswagen

[@zworm2]

Remember the First World War had not really ended, it was just a Treaty that was signed and the treaty was very strict about what Germany could now produce. War tools were restricted. But the nazis found a way to take money from the people legally and required by all. Incrementally. Towards a car and also towards holiday camps. What does a war require. Machinery for transport, roads and rails and the machines to move on them. All this money legally taken from each worker went towards a future build up of a war machine. Volkswagen is hitler's dream and still is. It amazes me we adopted this symbol into our society. Like the history of Bayer and mercedes. Tools of the holocaust.

[@Kaz.Klay.]

On top of that the disrespect and straight snubbing of Japan drove them to ally w the axis ...

[@Kaz.Klay.]

They had a delegation at Versailles but if I remember correctly they were pretty much barred from any actual participation... bot even sure they got a seat at the table

[@zworm2]

Everyone was so utterly destroyed at that time by the Spanish Influenza they had no more humans to throw into the grinder. @@Kaz.Klay.

[@otfriedschellhas3581]

What does all of this have to do with the Beetle- some people see everything through a political lens- tiresome.

[@zworm2]

@@otfriedschellhas3581Truth is this whole venture grew from a ploy by the German political party to cheat the German people. Seems to be a trait still of VW looking at the recent fines for cheating in Fuel Consumption numbers and Diesel emissions. Their seed didn't fall far from the old Linden Tree.

[@zworm2]

So soon the shovels became rifles and the formations they learned equated to military formations Everything was in place.

[@Fred_Raimer]

Geez, did they do their interviews in a bathroom? Sheesh, such horrible echoes!!!

[@markblanch2905]

Absolutely nothing wrong with the sound

[@aecrim1969]

This video is ment to tell us "the truth" we have to know. I am so sick of manipulation.

[@michaelsamuel9917]

Amen...

[@simonstuddert-kennedy8854]

Are you suggesting that the video is NOT telling you the truth ? As someone who has come to know a great deal of the history of the period, I can tell you that absolutely everything that I saw and heard in it is historically accurate. You have been manipulated alright, but not by videos like this, but rather by the Nazi-loving trash who want to deny the historically undeniable - and easily verifiable - facts.

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

It could have been worse Hitler could have come out with the Ford Pinto.

[@markblanch2905]

And we can see a lot of these socio-political devices being utilised right now

[@nadkalpurm8475]

Just the usual experts talking crap. Autobahn is an engineering marvel and VW cars are most successful. Sure H overstated the project's goals but it led to great progress in autombile engineering and highway construction.

[@otfriedschellhas3581]

Failure? Insane assessment of automotive's greatest ever success. Sounds like typical British sour grapes.

[@simonstuddert-kennedy8854]

Rewatch the video - and pay attention this time! They only produced 600 of the “Beetles” and they were mostly for show and propaganda. No one who subscribed for one ever actually got one. And soon, all car production was converted to war production. Moreover, from 1940 on, private citizens were forbidden to use the autobahns as they were reserved for military use.

[@NgugiKamau-rr3zp]

I meant(before the i.c.c. at the Hague)

[@Volcano-Man]

It was Britain that got the production going post war - because Britain realised that H Germany HAD to have a strong economy and to do that they had to produce goods to be sold overseas! The US milked Germany for everything they could.

[@duckbizniz663]

I am not sure if this story about building the autobahn and the people's car (Volkswagen) is real. Hitler is suppose to have read some book about Ford's Model T written by Henry Ford. Hitler is so obsessed with Germany this and Germany that I doubt if Hitler would read anything written by an American industrialist. In fact Hitler belittles Americans as a bunch lazy and soft capitalists who are decadent. A lot of Hitler's National Socialist thinking sound like anti-capitalist slogans from Marx's Communist writings. I do not think Hitler would read anything written by a wealthy American industrialist who made his millions from a capitalist system.

[@DanArmstrong-mg3ev]

Hitler was a big fan of Henry Ford...why? He was an antisemite who actually published a 4 volume set of pamphlets called "The International Jew" to which Hitller read and admired.

[@sakabula2357]

Hitler admired Henry Ford..it is well documented...

[@jrt818]

No, Hitler was a great admirer of Henry Ford and of his industrial processes and probably of his antisemitism writings. Was among the first to be awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle on Ford's 75th birthday.

[@tnekkc]

Hitler was a animal rights vegetarian rich people hating Marxist, for years. Then he turned into a rich jew hating socialist and wrote Mein Kampf to explain his reasoning. His big error in the book was thinking markets would shrink and Germany would no longer be able to trade manufactured products for food. So Hitler thought Germany must invade agricultural countries to long term secure food. That error cost millions of lives.

[@markblanch2905]

If it wasn't for stalin collaborating with him, WW2 would never have happened

[@shirleyrice7093]

Republicans and the Supreme Court in the U.S. are, like Nazi Germany, forcing women to give birth. They have made abortion criminal and they intend to end methods of birth control. In the U.S. women must also work to support their families as most of their husbands don’t make enough to support the family. And women are paid less than men doing the same work, even if they work harder and better. And some are proud to be Nazis as well, while one of our presidential candidates intends to build camps to contain people he considers undesirable.

[@mefinlay1780]

Amrica .. a third world country still living on archaic christian values

[@GerardVaughan-qe7ml]

“Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.” - Emil Ludwig Cohn in Les Annales, June, 1934 (also quoted in his book "The New Holy Alliance"). “We Jews are going to bring a war on Germany.” - David A. Brown, National Chairman, United Jewish Campaign, 1934

[@jonathannixon8652]

Hitler did want war that's why he lied about Polish soldiers destroying a radio 📻 communication system and claiming they killed Germans.

[@iteerrex8166]

I wonder if any of their offsprings are still breeding.

[@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st]

They would be if they were allowed to live with their own people like China and Nigeria and ....

[@iteerrex8166]

@@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st I’ve no idea what you’re saying.

[@gavinknight8754]

You must be Born Again John3:3-7 KJV Bible

[@paulrollwagen8012]

What a horrible horrible documentary

[@markblanch2905]

Why??

[@gregpeterson2960]

I usually support farmers but there's a lot of talk that these guys especially in Poland are supporting Putin. That is unacceptable.

[@laurabingen7246]

Is it that they support Putin or they disagree with the Polish government. There is a difference

[@thisissoeasy]

Very biased and boring documentary! So, what exactly IS the truth behind your video's dramatic clickbait title???

[@markblanch2905]

Pathetic, embarrassing comment

[@jaynareynolds3684]

This video is a failure.