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On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of
northern France, commonly known as D-Day.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)
On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany—then under the
control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party—
formed new state-owned automobile company, then known
as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens
mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk,
or “The People’s Car Company.”
Originally operated by the German Labor Front, a Nazi
organization, Volkswagen was headquartered in Wolfsburg,
Germany. In addition to his ambitious campaign to build a
network of autobahns and limited access highways across
Germany, Hitler’s pet project was the development and mass
production of an affordable yet still speedy vehicle that could
sell for less than 1,000 Reich marks (about $140 at the time).
Engineer Ferdinand Porsche.
The "Volkswagen" concept is shown to Adolf Hitler in 1934.
VW logo during the 1930s, initials surrounded by a stylized cogwheel and a spinning propeller that looked like a
swastika.
SANDY KOZEL
Singer Bono (Paul David Hewson) is 64 years old today.
The Irish rock band U2 on stage.
SANDY KOZEL
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters
in Berlin, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide
capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s
dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. He was 56.
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)
Hitler with his long-term mistress, Eva Braun (33). The two
were married the day before his death.
July 1947 photo of the rear entrance to the Führerbunker in the
garden of the Reich Chancellery.
