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“Classic Car Diaries: The Iconic Beetle” – by Des Kelly Once again, something quite different for our e’Lanka Members & Readers. All about the old “Beetle” automobile, the car that was first brought out by Adolph Hitler for the German People & no-one else. It was a car, totally manufactured in Germany, under the watchful eye of the Fuherer himself, and this is what makes the story even more interesting. Very few people, not even the Character who owned the little car publicised, seemed to know something about the Beetle, that I am now about to divulge to our readers. I once owned a Beetle, many moons ago and checked this amazing little fact out myself. I had the car fully hoisted in a Service Establishment and personally did spin each tyre around to notice the VW emblem thereon, which then turned out to be a fully fledged “Swastika” cleverly ...