Last week, at the Berlin Automobile Show, for the second time in a year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived more than five years ago but will not be on the market until 1940.
Far more gratifying to the Führer and Nazi patriots was the progress made in striping Germany with the finest highspeed road system (Reichsautobahnen) in the world. For last week any German motorist could drive from the Baltic Sea...
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