Date Posted: 23:59:02 01/25/04 SunAuthor: dont mess with Americans orSubject: Porsche built their first factories on illegally confiscated land, manned by slave labor, financed by illegally acquired capital and they think they run a clean ship PORSCHE, DONT SELL YOUR CRAP HERE.In reply to: porsche you are criminal 's message, "Re: 'A car of joy by means of force' means squat. If you kill, cheat the rules or murder people to win a race by force you didnt actually win you actually are living but an illusion of an inevitable loss" on 23:55:56 01/25/04 SunCalled up for military service in 1902, Porsche served as chauffeur to the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose murder in Sarajevo ignited the first World War. The war was kinder to Porsche, who shelved his designs for racing cars, and came up with innovative military vehicles instead. In fact, wars were always good for Porsche: during the second world war, his German tank and jeep designs proved so popular with troops on both sides that advancing Allied soldiers would commandeer them when they could. There were pitfalls too. The outbreak of war in 1939 did delay the mass production of Porsches' original design for the Volkswagen Beetle, despite the fact that almost 300,000 Germans had already paid 1,000 Reichs marks up-front. There was one very satisfied customer: The prototype was a 50th birthday gift to Germany's Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.Porsche's designs made a significant contribution to the Nazi war effort, but his name was cleared at the Nuremberg trials. However, the French indicted him on a murder charge. They showed an expedient approach to the process of de-Nazification by extracting a ransom of 1 million French francs for his release in 1947 and obliged him, in the mean time, to advise on the design of Renault's equivalent of the VW Beetle.(note:where did he get 1 millions francs in 1947 after being in prison and after a major war??) http://www.cybersteering.com/cruise/inf ... rsche.html