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VW Beetle is Jewish

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The Volkswagen Beetle was always said to have been the personal work of Hitler himself.

However, it now seems that the people’s car was designed by… a Jew. Dutch writer Paul Schilperoord alleges in The True Story of the Beetle that the car may well have been designed by a Jewish engineer called Josef Ganz.

“Even the name Volkswagen was originally Ganz’s,” says Schilperoord.

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