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    Stamp duty

    Sep 17, 2021 5 minutes
    Words Robert Gilmore
    “it was possible to buy additional stamps to speed up the arrival of your new vehicle”

    The year was 1938 and Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and accomplices had completed the strenuous testing of several series of prototype cars that would eventually become the KdF Wagen (the abbreviation coming from the German labour front slogan Kraft durch Freude, meaning Strength through Joy. These cars were the forerunners to the VW Beetle we know today.

    A suitable location for the production facility was found in northern Germany and, on 26 May 1938, the cornerstone ceremony for the factory took place in the newly formed town of Stadt des KdF Wagen (City of the KdF Wagen). As history records, at the end of the Second World War, in May 1945, this was changed to Wolfsburg.

    With Hitlerin their KdF Wagen.

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