The panel focuses on the history of Volkswagen, the City of the KdF Car, and the wartime employment of slave laborers, including Jewish prisoners from Auschwitz. It also explores how citizens and employees of the city and company remembered these events and crimes after 1945. Panelists include Peter Kassel (Chair of the CDU City Council Faction, Wolfsburg), Ilse Bormann (former Hitler Youth Member and Wolfsburg native), and Mechthild Hartung (Spokesperson, Lower Saxony, for the Society of Persons Persecuted by the Nazi Regime – Federation of Anti-Fascists, VVN-BdA e.V.)
The Volkswagen Factory and the City of the KdF Car: Nazi Histories and the Politics of Memory
Speaker(s): Peter Kassel, Ilse Bormann, Mechthild Hartung
Date: March 14, 2017
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany