*Bill* wrote:
> The Volkswagen and the Audi logo expose the swastika as intertwined "S"
> shapes symbolizing "Socialism" for the monstrous National Socialist German
> Workers' Party. The Volkswagen logo is described in greater detail at the
> following web pages, and the Audi logo is described below.
> http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a2a.html Graphic examples are at
> http://rexcurry.net/swastika-vw-logo.JPG Today, Audi is a wholly-owned
> subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.
>
> Germany in the 1930's often used symbols for letters and words. Common
> symbols under the National Socialist German Workers' Party often used the
> "S" shape, including the side-by-side use in the "SS" Division and the
> overlapping use in the swastika. The German word was not "swastika," but
> "Hakenkreuz" ("hooked cross" or "armed cross").
>
> Hitler was aware of the practice, and perhaps the source of the practice, in
> that he evolved "Adolf Hitler" into "S Hitler" in his own signature.
> http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a4.html It was a manner of declaring his
> socialism every time he signed his name and it was equivalent to signing
> "Socialist Hitler."
>
> It is part of growing evidence that supports the discovery by the historian
> Rex Curry (in the book "Swastika Secrets") that the Hakenkreuz, although an
> ancient symbol, was used also to represent "S" shapes for "Socialism" and
> its victory under the horrid National Socialists. For additional proof of
> the use of the "S" shapes of the "sieg" runes see a newly discovered youth's
> book at http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a3.html and posters
> http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1b.html and more posters at
> http://rexcurry.net/socialist-propaganda/posters1.html and German medals at
> http://rexcurry.net/socialism/germany.html and flags and banners at
> http://rexcurry.net/swastikaflags.html and for a fuller explanation see
> http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html
>
> The National Socialist German Workers' Party began in 1920, and achieved
> electoral breakthroughs in 1930, and dictatorship in 1933.
>
> In 1932, Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW combined to form the Auto Union (AU).
> They adopted four rings as their logo, one for each of the founder
> companies. All four companies were based in Saxony, and together they could
> cover the whole motor-vehicle market from motorbikes to luxury cars. Audi
> concentrated on the sports side, Horch on producing luxury vehicles,
> Wanderer (whose auto division had been bought in a hostile take over) on
> small to medium cars, and DKW on small cars. DKW was the main brand,
> producing around 80% of the conglomerate's cars, and only narrowly being
> beaten by VW (Volkswagen) to producing Hitler's 'people's car'. The acronym
> "DKW" originated from "Dampf Kraft Wagen" (steam-driven wagon).
>
> This 4-circle badge was used, originally, only on Auto Union racing cars in
> that period while the member companies used their own names and emblems.
> Often, the 4 circles contain the original symbols of Audi, Horch, Wanderer,
> and DKW. Wanderer used a wide winged "W" letter; Horch used a large "H"
> letter; DKW used the letters "DKW"; Audi used an inverted triangle and the
> number "1."
>
> The leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party had determined to
> make German automobiles into world leaders, in order to promote his
> socialism. Hitler regarded racing as an integral part of this, and
> consequently 500,000 Reichmarks in government subsidies were pledged to make
> Mercedes the leading race team in the world - Hitler was a fan of Mercedes.
> AU sent a senior delegation to Hitler and persuaded him that having two
> competing racing programs would be better than one. He agreed to split the
> government money between Mercedes and AU. Although AU earned themselves the
> enmity of Mercedes, an enemy they could never hope to match in terms of
> size, they also won themselves an opportunity to make their name in the
> racing world.
>
> Ferdinand Porsche had already done some work for Wanderer, before setting up
> his own consultancy in the wake of the Government-created depression and
> crash of 1929. Porsche had a car design, but no customers for it. AU signed
> him up.
>
> Audi still uses the German tag line "Vorsprung durch Technik." The tag line
> is used either in original or in its English translation "Advantage through
> Technology." It is an odd reminder of socialist clichés from the 1930's
> such as "Kraft durch Freude" ("Strength through Joy" and "Kdf"); Schönheit
> der Arbeit ("Beauty of Labor"); "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work brings Freedom").
> The "Strength through Joy" program was part of a scheme to provide holidays
> to workers at inexpensive rates, and was related to the "Beauty of Labor"
> office. When the early VW versions were introduced, Hitler abruptly changed
> the name of the car to KdF Wagen. The word "Volkswagen" itself meant
> "people's car" (cf. "folk's wagon"). Near the end of World War II many men,
> both young and old, were called upon to serve in the "People's Army "
> (Volksturm).
>
> Those clichés led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a
> part): 62 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;
> 35 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million under the
> National Socialist German Workers' Party. It was the worst slaughter in
> human history.
>
> On November 27, 1933 the "Kraft by Freude" organization was subordinated to
> the German Labor Front (DAF). The Kdf was intended to direct the leisure
> activities of the German population.
>
> The goal of all KdF programs was to eliminate social inequalities and to
> create a large German community, in which everyone should have the same
> rights to recovery and relaxation independently of class and income. The
> allegedly unselfish and idealistic Kdf program was a refined socialist
> strategy to seduce individuals into socialism.
>
> Before WW II, The National Socialist German Workers' Party was aided by the
> German Labor Front (DAF), a socialist group that built cars. The logo for
> the DAF was a swastika (Hakenkreuz) surrounded by the gear shaped emblem or
> cog of the socialist group. The National Socialist German Workers' Party
> had begun as the "German Workers' Party" before adding "National Socialist"
> to its name.
>
>
> To control trade unions and the economic workforce, the National Socialist
> German Workers' Party (the National Socialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter Partei -
> NSDAP) created the German Labor Front (Deutsches Arbeitsfront - DAF) in
> 1933. The purpose of the German Labor Front was to control the German labor
> unions through a centrally controlled organization led by National
> Socialists. The German Labor Front adopted a paramilitary structure similar
> to that of the National Socialist German Workers Party. While membership
> was called "voluntary," essentially every German worker was required to be a
> member. This was particularly true of those workers associated with prime
> industries such as cars, transportation, utilities, textile trades, armament
> manufacturing, legal services, agriculture and the like (in other words,
> just about everything of course). The organization was divided into two
> parts including the National Socialist Factory Organization
> (Nationalsozialistische Betriebsorganization-NSBO) and the National
> Socialist Trade and Industry Organization (Nationalsozialistische Handels
> und Gewerbeorganization-NSHAGO).
>
> Members of the German Labor Front were required to own and wear uniforms
> that denoted their status within the structure of the organization.
> Following the outbreak of war, members were often required to serve as
> factory guards or to volunteer for membership in associations like the
> National Air Protection League (Reichsluftschutzbund) and other Air
> Protection (Luftschutz) groups. In this capacity, it was their job to help
> protect industrial facilities as well as to coordinate with outside
> organizations that helped to ensure the safe operation of factory
> facilities. Many members of the German Labor Front also served as official
> members of the Factory Police (Werksschutzpolizei-WSP). By 1942, the German
> Labor Front also organized independent and locally trained members who
> volunteered to operate anti-aircraft flak batteries to protect individual
> factories from Allied bombs.
>
> The Audi company traces its origins back to 1899 and August Horch. The first
> Horch automobile was produced in 1901 in Zwickau, in former East Germany. In
> 1910, Horch was forced out of the company he had founded. He then started a
> new company in Zwickau and continued using the Horch brand. His former
> partners sued him for trademark infringement and a German court determined
> that the Horch brand belonged to his former company. August Horch was forced
> to refrain from using his own family name in his new car business. As the
> word "horch!" translates to "listen!" in Old German, August Horch settled on
> the Latin equivalent of his name - "audi!". It is also popularly believed
> that Audi is an acronym which stands for "Auto Union Deutschland
> Ingolstadt".
>
> The company is headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
>
> Thus "Audi" is obviously related to the word "Audio" and is also related to
> the Spanish word "Oye" as in Carlos Santana's hit song "Oye Como Va" (Listen
> how it goes) and is related to the call of the bailiff in the United States
> Supreme Court "Oyez! Oyez!" ("Hear ye! Hear ye!" at
> http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage)
>
> Where the old Audi A6 had an intelligent expression underscored by a smiley
> lower air intake, the new grille (which echoes the Auto Union racers under
> National Socialism) has been described as "....a Rottweiler of a thing. With
> its battering-ram snout, chrome fangs and suspicious eyes, it's just itching
> for you to spill its pint and make you pay the consequences."

You got anymore of that stuff you've been smoking?
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