I'd love to see a well researched documentary or book about the fascist roots of how cars came to dominate the world, the story is out there plain to see: Mussolini and Hilter pioneered the freeway, Nazis started VW, Franco started SEAT, Ford loved the Nazis, Fiats owners were tied to Mussolini, Peugeot and Citroen owners switched to producing for the occupying Nazi armies. warhistoryonline.com/instant-a jalopnik.com/the-inventor-of-t pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienc voxeu.org/article/nazi-pork-an webuildvalue.com/en/infrastruc

Modern day Hitler apologists also want to claim the Nazi role in the hitler.org/artifacts/autobahn/

And the contemporary German government tries to highlight that the Autobahn wasn't purely built by the Nazis, but can't get around that they drove their widespread creation and adoption dw.com/en/the-myth-of-hitlers-

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Mercedes was also an early Hitler supporter and received lots of support from the Nazis. The Nazis stopped taxing cars in 1934, for example jalopnik.com/some-nazi-car-won

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Even in Red Vienna, we're still suffering from the Nazi's focus on the automobile: the 1939 "Reichsgaragenordnung" (Reich's Garage Law) still is law in some form in Vienna, Austria, and Germany. It requires that there are parking places for every job, apartment, store, etc.

cba.fro.at/347920 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellpla falter.at/zeitung/20210818/aut Reichsgaragenordnung

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Here's a newsreel from Vienna in 1937, when the Austrofascist Schuschnigg was in power. They were forcing pedestrians into the narrowly constrained segments of the city that is now all too common. Before, the whole streetscape was open to all. britishpathe.com/video/watch-y

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