Wolfsburg is a city in
Lower Saxony,
Germany. It is located on the River
Aller northeast of
Braunschweig (Brunswick). Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of
Gifhorn and
Helmstedt. The city is very young, since it was planned by the
Nazis in order to build a town for the workers of the
Volkswagen factories. It was founded in
1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens ("City of the KdF Car") around the village of Hesslingen in the
District of Gifhorn.
Kraft durch Freude (abbreviated KdF and meaning "strength through joy") was the German state-controlled leisure organization; one of its projects was the KdF-Wagen, which would later be known as the
VW Beetle. During
World War II there were also jeeps, airplanes and other military equipment built, mainly by forced workers and
POWs at these factories.
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