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The Reich Flight Tax (German: Reichsfluchtsteuer) was a German capital control law implemented in 1931 to stem capital flight from the German Reich. After seizing power, the Nazis used the law to prevent emigrants from moving money out of the country. [1] [2] [3] The law was created through decree on 8 December 1931 by Reichspräsident Paul von ...
German manufacturers produced touring buses for the non-car-owning public, [92] and the Volkswagen (then called the KdF-Wagen, Strength Through Joy car, for the Nazi recreation organization) was developed and marketed in association with the autobahn to promote car ownership; Hitler first publicly called for its development at the opening of ...
Vehicles used by federal institutions, such as Bundespolizei, carry the German Bundesadler instead of a Bundesland seal. The rear plate bears, above the official seal, the vehicle safety test sticker. This test is obligatory three years after the first registration, and every two years after that. (This time scheme applies to most vehicles, but ...
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On August 3, 1933, Adolf Hitler received Sosthenes Behn (then the CEO of ITT) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in one of his first meetings with US businessmen. [16] [17] [18] [need quotation to verify] In his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton claims that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS-leader ...
The Nazi German central bank, the Reichsbank, benefited by the theft of the property of numerous governments invaded by the Germans, especially their gold reserves and much personal property of the Third Reich's many victims, especially the Jews.
Some 11% of German employees worked in the country’s automotive sector in 2021, according to the ACEA, the sixth highest share in the EU. In addition to losing customers in its own continent ...
The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Diesel Sedan was awarded Green Car of the Year.The award was rescinded in early October 2015. On 18 September 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said beginning in 2008 the car maker fraudulently installed engine control unit (ECU) software determined to be a "defeat device", in violation of the Clean Air Act, to circumvent environmental ...