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Gholamrezakhan
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On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany—then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party—forms a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed "The People's Car Company."
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Pedrams
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Volkswagen owes its survival after World War II to a British Army officer named Ivan Hirst. After the war, when the Volkswagen factory was seriously damaged, it was occupied by American soldiers and then handed over to Hirst.
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