Really, you should inform yourself better about the Volkswagen Beetle history.

Plan economy? You mean: weaponry.

Simply because that is their nr1 business policy when it comes to tax payer's money haha.

There's no way to deny my statement. People vote because they fear something. But maybe NATO just exists because it exists. At random. Who knows.

The mean reason of your voter's existence is your fear and how to manage that fear. If there is nothing to fear, the government would soon run out of business= lose total control over managing your fears.

So yeah, it's all business as usual :)

Hitler set up the state-owned Volkswagen company before the war in Nazi Germany under the umbrella of the DAF, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labour Front). The DAF ran the Kraft durch Freude (KdF – “Strength Through Joy”) program, designed to bridge the divide between classes and promote National Socialism to the masses, and so the car was named after this – the KdF-Wagen (literally – the “KdF Car”).

Source: the collector
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A savings scheme was set up by the DAF, which had invested heavily to produce the car, whereby people gradually put in enough money to have a car delivered, and then finish paying it off.

Many, many German families invested in the scheme. Nobody, not one family, ever received a Volkswagen. Some investors did receive some money back in the 60's (from memory), but most simply lost their investment.

Source: Quora (edit: I picked this one, because it briefly states what other sources also state, it's "common knowledge")

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Two excerpts of the "production":

Volkswagen had only just started small scale production, building about 210 Beetles, when civilian production was halted at the start of the war.

- A handful of KdF-Wagen were produced, primarily for the Nazi elite, from 1941 to 1944, as the Typ 60. 

You are correct Nazism is a result/subset of Capitalism. I believe calling out Nazism and Capitalism are the same thing for the reason just stated. But I am more than willing to call him out for being a Capitalist specifically too if you wish MissScarlett.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind it being replaced with happily. But I understand/I presume the sadly is supposed to be in relation to the premature ending of his Chess career. But again, I wouldn't complain about the change in the text as you suggested.

Chessius.

Thank you for enlightening me on the divine knowledge that every country has a military and therefore needs weaponry. Good to know. I think it's very understandable to have that need, especially after WWII. However in particular countries that did not take precedence over the reconstruction of the civilian infrastructure etc. such as the USSR.

I assume you use the term they/their in reference to Governments in general. I also assume you know that weaponry isn't very profitable, war is, or more to the point - bombing your competition is. However, your statement is definitely very deniable hence why I am doing so now.

NATO is an expansionist military organization created solely to isolate and fight against Communism and spread US hegemony over the globe. Something it's been rather successful at - spreading 'liberal democracy' no matter how many people they have to kill to do it. They didn't come into existence on a whim.

I am also confused about your stance regarding people voting purely because they fear something. Fear what exactly?

I assume your view that the government purely exists to exploit fear is a Libertarian one, also one not entirely grounded in reality, like many Libertarians are. Could you clarify and elaborate on these fear remarks?

Is your solution to all this 'Matrix' stuff to run into the woods and eat berries? If so, feel free to do so right now. No one will stop you. Unless it's private property of course!!

Regarding Volkswagen's Beetle, it's Very interesting to know. No doubt you know more about this than me. I think there is a very important moral to this story. Nazis were (say it with me kids) Bad!

The question of whether Junge was, or was not, a Nazi, and to what degree, could probably have been established in the 1940s; but now it is all but irresoluble.

In any case, there is Junge's chess; even the likes of Hans Frank, who was very clearly a war criminal whose actions richly merited his death on the gallows, has a place here. Keres? Alekhine?

But I do have one question about Junge and Nazism.

Is it possible to confirm or not if he was an actual member of the NSDAP?

I know microfilm exists of the enrollment records, but I haven't found any online access. Does anybody know how to actually research such a question?

The only reference I've found is a link to a now defunct webpage.

Surely this information must be online somewhere, but I've yet to find a source.

Nothing a sprinkling of <ignore-list> magic dust can't cure.>

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