According to a November 2021 update of research mentioned in the fifteenth report by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jaray's findings influenced the design of "Hitler's streamlined KdF car", later known as the 'beetle', which became the best-selling car globally post-war. [37]

Adolf Hitler proposed a vehicle that could accommodate two adults and three children while using no more than seven liters of fuel per 100 km. It was to be inexpensive, durable, practical, and mass-produced; intended for 'the people' to use on the country's new road network, the Reichsautobahn.

Der als Volkswagen im Wortsinne geplante KdF-Wagen – nach damaliger Schreibung auch: KdF.-Wagen [2] – war eines der wichtigsten Projekte der NS-Organisation „Kraft durch Freude“ (KdF). Das Automobil sollte mit 990 Reichsmark (nach heutiger Kaufkraft ca. 5.200 Euro) für jedermann erschwinglich sein.

2024年12月19日 · The KDF Wagen, or Strength Through Joy Car, was the predecessor to the Volkswagen Beetle. It was designed by Ferdinand Porsche and was intended to be an affordable car for German families during the 1930s. Due to World War II, only a few KDF Wagen models were produced before production shifted to military vehicles like the Kübelwagen.

This poster advertises the KdF-Car savings program: at the suggested savings rate of 5 Reichsmark per week, participants were supposed to receive the car after about four years. Overall, 330,000 people participated in the KdF-Car savings program, with 60,000 of them managing to save the required amount in full by 1941.

In an era where only the most economic elite possessed cars, Hitler believed that all people should be able to own a car and additionally thought that a smart design could allow for reliability, enjoyment, and vacation travel. The name given to the car in 1938 was Kraft durch Freude (KdF-Wagen, literally "strength through joy car").

2021年10月15日 · Instead, to spur the country’s needed growth, Hitler and the Nazis offered the car to the people under a savings scheme known as KdF-Wagen Sparkarte (“savings booklet”). The Sparkarte contained four cards, each with space for fifty stamps.

The 1942 KdF Wagen, also known as the Volkswagen Beetle, was a car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen during World War II. The car was designed by Ferdinand Porsche in the 1930s as a cheap, practical car for the masses, and was initially marketed under the KdF (Kraft durch Freude) name.

In 1938, the “Society for the Planning of the German People’s Car” [Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des deutschen Volkswagens] and the German Labor Front [Deutsche Arbeitsfront or DAF] opened a new factory near Braunschweig, where the new car, now called the “Kdf-Car [“Strength through Joy Car” or “KdF-Wagen”], was to be built ...

2018年3月27日 · Rio’s 1:43 scale German 1938 KdF Volkswagen Peoples Car Three Car Set with Hitler Figurine. The Kraft durch Freude (German for Strength through Joy, abbreviated KdF) was a large state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany.