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From: "Florian Rehnisch" <to@florianrehnisch.de>
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Subject: Re: VW beetle logo
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Hi,

Bill Taylor <mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> I once heard, long ago, that this was carefully designed to make it appear
> as a swastika when travelling at about 30 mph. Anyone else heard that one?

Didn't heard so, but that may be possible, since the first 'Volkswagen'
was designed in the 30s in Germany, the so called 'Third Reich'. I think
the capitals in the logo were taken because it was a 'Volks(people's)-
Wagen(car)', i.e. a car for the common man.

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flori