Collectors & Aficionados
The murder of an innocent? Four cars and a cruel death
Story of Ferdinand Porsche, the brilliant engineer and designer behind the Volkswagen Beetle and the Porsche sports cars.
“Monsieur Ferdinand Porsche, au nom de la Republique Française je vous declare en arrêt pour collaboration avec le Troisième Reich.”
It is November 1945. The 70-year-old “engineer”, as he is known (even though his talent for design was never crowned by a university degree), is gripped by a sudden feeling of dread. His heart pounds, and he feels hot all over. He has never been a member of the Nazi party and the work he has done for Germany is no more than anyone else would do in a country they live in and consider their home...
Son of a bohemian father, Ferdinando Porsche was actually an Austrian, but he had almost always worked in Germany, even though, towards the end of the war, he had moved his studio to Austria to escape the constant bombing of Stuttgart.
