Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0011558Revised

Event record

Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany

Adolph Hitler.

Adolph Hitler opens an assembly plant in Sakse, Germany, for the manufacture of Volkswagen motor vehicles. Today, Volkswagen is one of the leading motor vehicle manufacturers in the world.

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day

How we know this

  1. 01Westminster College," Adolf Hitler met with Ferdinand Porsche to discuss Hitler's idea of a volkswagen",From: Westminster College,[Online],Available at:www.westminstercollege.edu,[Accessed on: 28 February 2014]
  2. 02Le Monde diplomatique.Clairmont,F.F,"Volkswagen’s history of forced labour",From: Le Monde diplomatique,[Online],Available at:mondediplo.com,[Accessed on: 28 February 2014]    

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011558

South African History Online (2011) 'Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011558 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).

South African History Online, Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011558, (accessed 30 July 2026).

"Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011558. Accessed 30 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Adolph Hitler Opens VW Plant In Germany." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011558.

Further reading

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →

Contribute to this record0 comments

Comments are reader contributions. They are not part of the archival record.