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Subject:strength-through-joy car
From:William A. McKinley
Date:11 Apr 96 18:00:33 EDT

I second the motion, Dyer. Excellent reading, lots of great B&W pics.,
intersting history.  Wait 'till I tell my wife you got it for $1... she paid ten
(4th printing, but excellent condition with dust cover).
The book, Small Wonder, The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen, is by Walter Henry
Nelson. There is no ISBN #, it was first printed in 1965. Library of Congres
card # is 65-10899.

Highly Recommended to All!

-Andy
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Andy McKinley
75112.2101@compuserve.com
'72 Campmobile, Looking for a Thing to add to the stable.

>I'm reading the book "Small Wonder", a history of the Volkswagen written
>in the '60s.  I found it interesting that when Adolf Hitler layed the
>cornerstone of the factory at (what would later be called) Wolfsberg
>in ~1938, he pronounced that the new volksauto that had been designed
>by Porsche would be called the KdF-wagen.  KdF is an acronym for a
>german group at the time whose name translated as "strength-through-joy".

>Dyer Lytle              
>dlytle@as.arizona.edu   
>HST NICMOS Project      
>Steward Observatory

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