[Hermann Goering leaning on front of Volkswagen convertible given to him, Ferdinand Porsche looking on] – Antique Print
![[Hermann Goering leaning on front of Volkswagen convertible given to him, Ferdinand Porsche looking on], [1939 June 17] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a54ee6f36046-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Hermann Goering leaning on front of Volkswagen convertible given to him, Ferdinand Porsche looking on]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Hermann Goering leaning on front of Volkswagen convertible given to him, Ferdinand Porsche looking on]
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Hermann Göring leans against the front of a Volkswagen convertible while Ferdinand Porsche looks on, in a photograph dated June 17, 1939. The album caption filed with the picture says the car was presented to Göring as a gift by Robert Ley, leader of the German Labor Front, together with Porsche, the engineer who designed it. The gift reflects the regime's promotion of the Volkswagen as an affordable "people's car" for ordinary Germans, a project tied to the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Because the date and attribution come from old, unverified caption cards, they should be read with that caution in mind.
| Created / published | [1939 June 17] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1930-1940.Portrait prints 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data, with subsequent revisions. In album: Hermann Göring's activities, June 13-August, 1939, Photoarchiv Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Göring, v. 33, p. 23, no. 29. In album section preceded by caption: Reichsorganisationsleiter Dr. Ley überbringt zusammen mit dem Konstrukteur Dr. Porsche den Generalfeldmarschall einen Volkswagen als Geschenk [The Reich organization leader Dr. Ley together with the design engineer Dr. Porsche deliver a Volkswagen as a gift to the general field marshal]. Hermann Göring Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Porsche, Ferdinand,--1875-1951. Göring, Hermann,--1893-1946. Volkswagen automobiles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,084 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106955 |
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