Wolfsburg (redirect from Stadt des KdF-Wagens)
1938 as a home for workers producing the KdF-Wagen until 25 May 1945, the city was called Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. In 1972, the population...
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Volkswagen Beetle (redirect from Kdf-Wagen)
about it because the car could easily be adapted for military use. The KdF-Wagen was not series-produced before the Second World War because the Volkswagen...
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Volkswagen (redirect from Volks wagen)
the value paid into the saving scheme. Prototypes of the car called the KdF-Wagen (from the German term Kraft durch Freude, meaning "Strength Through Joy")...
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Tatra 97 (section Resemblance to Volkswagen KdF-Wagen)
Type 97 was terminated in 1939, possibly to avoid comparison with the KdF-Wagen (see below). Production of the Type 97 was 508 cars in total. In 1946...
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two-door offroad saloon. The visual appearance is similar to the KdF-Wagen, because the KdF-Wagen body was also used for the Typ 87. Due to the 5¼-16 offroad...
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rolling chassis and mechanics were built at what was then the Stadt des KdF-Wagens, ("City of the 'Strength through Joy'-Car") – renamed Wolfsburg after...
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Piëch, a lawyer from Vienna who from 1941 to 1945 led the KdF-Wagen (Volkswagen) factory in KdF-Stadt (present day Wolfsburg). The couple had four children:...
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built nearby, until May of 1945 named "Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben" (City of the KdF-Wagen at Fallersleben). After World War II, the city was...
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Volkswagenwerk GmbH between 1941 and 1945, which produced the Volkswagen vehicles (KdF-Wagen) at the factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. Piëch was born 21 September 1894...
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Arbeitsdorf ("work-village") was a Nazi concentration camp in Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben 1942. In 1936, a Czech engineer by the name of Ferdinand...
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VfL Wolfsburg (redirect from V.f.L. Wolfsburg)
Volkswagen Arena. The city of Wolfsburg was founded in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagen to house autoworkers building the car that would later become famous as...
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Auto Union racing cars (redirect from P-Wagen project)
programs: The people's car: a project that would eventually become the KdF-wagen A state-sponsored motor racing programme: to develop a "high speed German...
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disasters in history. KdF's most ambitious programme for German workers was to set up production of an affordable car, the KdF-Wagen, which later became...
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to his newfound affinity for "pointy" designs). A new city, "Stadt des KdF-Wagens" was founded near Fallersleben for the Volkswagen factory, but wartime...
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car". Most mechanical parts came from the VW 38, the prototype of the KdF-Wagen better known as the Volkswagen Beetle. The chassis was heavily reinforced...
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H, the Tatra V570 prototype, T77, 77A, T87 and T97 and of course the KdF-Wagen (later better known as the Volkswagen Beetle; see Volkswagen controversy)...
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87 four-wheel drive 'Kübel/KDF' Command Car (Kommandeurswagen), which in turn were based on those of the civilian KDF-Wagen. Erwin Komenda, Ferdinand Porsche's...
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buses for the non-car-owning public, and the Volkswagen (then called the KdF-Wagen, Strength Through Joy car, for the Nazi recreation organization) was developed...
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car similar in specifications to the KIM 10, and as such rejected the KdF-Wagen and DKW F8. The Opel Kadett K38 was found to match these requirements...
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was called Porsche (Model) 60 but it was soon officially renamed as the KdF-Wagen or Volkswagen (people's car). In the family's garage at Stuttgart, three...
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the 1904 Ford Model C and the 1905 Ford Model F. In 1938, the Volkswagen Beetle (then called the "KdF-Wagen") was released with a rear-mounted flat-four...
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car which it had intended to make prior to the war (under the name of KdF-Wagen), except that the factory was converted to military truck production during...
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(before Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg) for manufacturing steering components of KdF-Wagen (VW Käfer) and tools for Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke in Dessau...
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4-stroke engine. They, therefore, rejected both the rear-engined, two-door KdF-Wagen (future VW Beetle) and the two-stroke powered, front-wheel-drive, wooden-bodied...
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Hitler arranged for designer Ferdinand Porsche to draw up plans for the KdF-wagen (Strength Through Joy car), intended to be an automobile that everyone...
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Success in large container construction 1931 Resistance Welding 1934 KdF Wagen 1955 Large container manufacture 1965 German-American tank program at...
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torsion bar suspension at each end. The 'Volkswagen', 'Peoples' Car' or 'KdF-Wagen' project began in 1933 and by 1934 Porsche had sketched out a design for...
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been stopped by the Nazis in order to cover its resemblance to their KdF-Wagen (which later became known as the VW Beetle). Czechoslovakia had a Socialist...
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abbreviated KdF) "KdF-Wagen" or "Strength through Joy - Car" project ground to a halt before serious production had started because of World War II. The KdF, was...
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Army Headquarters, Bad Oeynhausen. Uniquely, he had experience of the KdF Wagen in his pre-war career as a motor racing engineer; whilst attending the...
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