I'm just baffled at how Hitler's pet project somehow became the symbol of peace and freedom in the hippie era. What was that transition like? Did they ever publicly distance or acknowledge their origins at all?
u/stupidrobots gave a nice answer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3di8iq/did_volkswagen_have_difficulty_distancing_itself/
edit: added u/