Editing Strength Through Joy (section)

==People's Car==
{{main|Volkswagen Beetle}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1979-025-30A, Reichsautobahn mit zwei KdF-Wagen.jpg|thumb|Volkswagens on an empty {{lang|de|[[autobahn]]|italic=no}}|left]]
KdF's most ambitious programme for German workers was to set up production of an affordable car, the ''KdF-Wagen'', which later became the [[Volkswagen Beetle]] (''Volkswagen'' being German for 'People's Car'). This was originally a project undertaken at Hitler's request by the engineer [[Ferdinand Porsche]]. When the German car industry was unable to meet Hitler's demand that the Volkswagen be sold at 1,000 Reichsmarks or less, the project was taken over by the German Labour Front ({{lang|de|Deutsche Arbeitsfront}}; DAF). Now working for the DAF, Porsche built a new Volkswagen factory in {{lang|de|[[Fallersleben]]|italic=no}} at a huge cost, partly met by raiding the DAF's accumulated assets and misappropriating{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} the dues paid by DAF members.

The Volkswagen was sold to German workers on an installment plan, where buyers of the car made payments and posted stamps in a stamp-savings book, which, when full, would be redeemed for the car. Due to the shift of wartime production, no private citizen ever received a ''KdF-Wagen'', although after the war, Volkswagen did give some customers a 200 DM discount for their stamp-books. The Beetle factory was then primarily converted to produce the {{lang|de|[[Volkswagen Kübelwagen|Kübelwagen]]|italic=no}}, the German equivalent of the [[Willys MB|Jeep]]. The few Beetles that were produced went to the diplomatic corps and military officials.<ref>Tooze, Adam (2006). The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. London: Allen Lane. {{ISBN|978-0-7139-9566-4}}.</ref>