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Adolf Hitler (center) inspects one of the few
Volkswagens actually built under the Nazi government program with his Labor Minister Robert Ley (without hat).

Hirst’s efforts did not go unrewarded; after one of the original Volkswagens that had somehow survived the war was demonstrated to the British Army’s Rhine Group Headquarters staff, the Army put in an order for 20,000 vehicles.

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