German engineer Ferdinand Porsche already had experience working with Daimler-Benz when he set up his own firm in 1931. Later in the decade, he was hired by Adolf Hitler’s government to design the Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle, which was first imported to the United States in 1949. The year before that, Porsche and his son had established their own automaking business in Austria with the help of 200 employees. In June 1948, their first car, the 356, hit the road.
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