[Paul Franssen]

Smarjoram (hey, it's you again!) I think you got the thing pretty straight! Would you leave your native ..what..Sherwood Forest because some jerk from there decides he wants to rule the world? (of course not, you're not from ...Sherwood Forest!)

JackOlsen, you got the facts kinda the same as I've read them. Old Porsche was from the same (Austrian) region as Adolf, and they got along well, gruss Gott! And when P. didn't find enough men to test-drive the early VW's, Hitler got some SS to drive 'em around in circles for weeks on end to test their durability (the cars', I mean!). It seems clear Mr. P. wanted his machine(s) to succeed, and he did get a brown tongue doing so. Does that make Porsche a nazi? Would you expect a successful engineer to lay off and leave technical progress to the competition? Would you have expected Dr. P. to go to Adroit and build Rumblers??? Not a very likely prospect.

Oh, of course, there's many a hero-in-waiting to state at any propicious moment that "one has a responsibility towards humanity" etcetera... But then, which Nazi (is that spelled with a capital "N"?) was it said "your country right or wrong" and "if you don't like it, leave it" anyway? The world is full of hypocrits (ask me how I know!).

Azasadny, IBM were very active in Germany, and Ford's Cologne factories were "very bombed" by the U.S. allies during the war (especially the "slave" workers' sleeping quarters there), and 25 years after the war, the U.S. federal courts granted Ford full compensation for the destruction of their German properties.

Justice? Fôôget it, they ain't no such thing. But there are Porsche cars, that's a fact, does that make Porsche cars nazi cars? Were the U-boots (despicably good machines, in their own sordid manner) Nazi machines? What about the cuckoo clock?

Go drive a Wodka, but if you want it to be politically correct, make sure it's American...er no, Finnish, or whatever it might be tomorrow.