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CZECH-GERMANY-HISTORY-AUTOMOBILE-WAR-PORSCHE
TO GO WITH AFP STOR BY Jan Flemr = A municipal employee shows on February 27, 2014 the former welcoming sign of the Vratislavice village reading ''Welcome to Vratislavice and Nisou, native place of Ferdinand Porsche" that was removed from the municipal hall facade after critics pointed the Nazi past of the car maker. Since it opened in 2010, an ultra-modern Porsche museum next to Vratislavice town hall trumpeted the success of its native son who dreamt up the Volkswagen Beetle -- among the world's top selling cars -- and in 1898, the first gasoline-electric hybrid. When Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, he was quick to ask Porsche to design a people's car, the predecessor of the VW Beetle, before giving up his Czechoslovak citizenship to the German. Critics point to Porsche joining the ranks of the Nazi SS paramilitary group before the war and for later using prisoners of war as slave labour at the Volkswagen car plant founded in 1938 in Wolfsburg, Germany, where he was a general manager. AFP PHOTO/MICHAL CIZEK
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Liberec, CZECH REPUBLIC |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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MICHAL CIZEK |
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19 Martie 2014 |
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7360 x 4912 (1.89 MB) |
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