This is the exciting, fascinating saga of the creation of the world's most popular car, the famed Volkswagen Beetle, under the Nazi regime of German dictator Adolf Hitler, who played a pivotal role in its design, construction, and marketing during 1933-1938. It is also the story of the two Drs. Porsches who created it ? Ferdinand, Sr., and his son, Ferry ? as well as Dr. Robert Ley's German Labor Front that built it, and Adolf Huhnlein's Nazi Motor Corps that helped popularize driving and made motoring a reality in the Third Reich. The VW Beetle helped rescue Germany's economy twice ?before the war and afterward ? sparking the postwar ?German economic miracle? that continues to this very day. ILLUSTRATIONS: 150 colour bb/w images *
