“Whatever the future development of this type of car in Germany, there is no doubt that Hitler's government will help to popularize it”, an excerpt from an article by W.H. Millgate in The Detroit News, April 1933. Of course, you guessed that we're talking about prototypes of the VW Beetle, an absolute bestseller that, by and large, won't be out of production until July 2019. However, there is one page in the history of this car that few people are familiar with.
