The origins of the Volkswagen Beetle car date back to 1930s Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler wanted private motorized transport to be widely available and commissioned engineer Ferdinand Porsche to produce such a vehicle. Hitler decreed that this car should be capable of transporting two adults and three children at a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph), and that it should cost no more than a motorcycle and sidecar to buy (at the time, about 200 German Marks). A savings scheme was also launched that would enable the common people to buy the car. However, the advent and aftermath of World War II meant that those...