Q 01/05

In which German city is Volkswagen headquartered?

A) Wolfsburg

B) Stuttgart

C) Munich

D) Hanover

Answer · why

A) Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg's car plant was slated to be dismantled and shipped out as war reparations before British officers got it building cars.

Q 02/05

What does the name Volkswagen mean in German?

A) Fast car

B) Small car

C) Family car

D) People's car

Answer · why

D) People's car

People's car, though the idea wasn't the Nazis': Hanomag was already selling a small, cheap car, the Kommissbrot, in 1925.

Q 03/05

Which organisation established Volkswagen in 1937?

A) The Reichsbank

B) The German Labour Front

C) The Reich Economics Ministry

D) The Wehrmacht

Answer · why

B) The German Labour Front

The German Labour Front, the Nazi Party's labour organisation, also sold the weekly savings stamps that buyers collected toward the car.

Q 04/05

Which engineer received the 1934 contract to design the car that became the Volkswagen Beetle?

A) Béla Barényi

B) Josef Ganz

C) Ferdinand Porsche

D) Hans Ledwinka

Answer · why

C) Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche got the Beetle contract, but in wartime his heavy-tank design lost out to Henschel's, which became the Tiger I.

Q 05/05

Which leader demanded a car that could carry two adults and three children for about 1,000 Reichsmarks?

A) Hermann Göring

B) Adolf Hitler

C) Joseph Goebbels

D) Rudolf Hess

Answer · why

B) Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler wanted a car every German family could afford, at a time when car ownership in Germany lagged far behind other countries.