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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: commitment
27 Jun 2023 Acquired Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
“We're going to talk about all of the amazing things that this guy creates, but we also got to state this upfront—this is as good place as any—Ferdinand Porsche and many other folks in the family and in the early Porsche and Volkswagen (as we will see) days, were also huge Nazis.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 27 Jun 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
Transcript context
…He was already doing stuff that he was engineering and creating, hence the honorary doctorate. Yes. Nonetheless, he definitely was a badass engineer. We're going to talk about all of the amazing things that this guy creates, but we also got to state this upfront—this is as good place as any—Ferdinand Porsche and many other folks in the family and in the early Porsche and Volkswagen (as we will see) days, were also huge Nazis. Ferdinand himself, not just was a Nazi, but was a very close personal associate of Adolf Hitler. He was a member of the SS. We're going to glorify him and many of these other folks here of their business and engineering contributions, but that doesn't mean that these are good people, so keep that in mind. Yeah. This isn't like one of those people that you hear, oh, well, at that point in time, the Nazis were so big and powerful, they just got course, or they collaborated. It's like, no, this dude was [...]. Real big Nazi.…
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