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Gravitas recall: Volkswagen was founded to mass-produce 'people's car', in 1937

On this day in 1937, the German automaker Volkswagen was established to mass-produce an affordable "people's car". The company was originally operated by a Nazi organization called the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront).