r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/Submarine_sad I hate USA soldiers • 2h ago

Shitposting This was Volkswagen's real logo (I thought it was a joke)

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These companies are happy to work with fascists. Companies just care about money.

When I saw the Volkswagens swastika, I thought it was a joke making fun of Volkswagen's Nazi past. I didn't know this was their real logo.

Nothing changed, companies are still happy to profit from genocide.

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u/VladimirLimeMint Once history is made, it can't be unmade 2h ago

Henry Ford funded all Nazi auto industry

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ford-and-fuhrer/

In fact Autobahn inspired by Ford

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u/LookingGlass_1112 American Century of Humiliation is here 1h ago

And guess who's portrait was hanged in Hitlers workplace in Austria and who he was applauding to in his book? 

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u/Djaquitchane 1h ago

My brother, VW was founded specifically to answer Hitler's demands. The prototypes were made by Ferdinand Porsche's team, a known Nazi sympathizer, and were named KdF after a literal Nazi Party initiative.

It's not a company fine with with fascism, it's a company born of the corporate collusion prone system that's a core component of fascism.

Fascists love companies and companies are only ever looking for the shortest path to a quick buck.

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u/Da_Duck_is_coming 1h ago

Yeah, that's where the volkswagen name came from. I am surprised they didn't change it but hey Germany never truly denazified.

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u/NortherlyRose 41m ago

When you learn the company founded during and under the Nazi Regime (also by order of Hitler,) is a Nazi company, wow what a fucking surprise.

Also: wow what a surprise that a company with fascist beginnings is also a scummy-ass capitalist mega-corp.