<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/abe3d7fd-d890-4e3f-82a6-03993c03ccf9/411A56A4-C8DD-495F-9D29-925950D35C68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html"><H2>The Dark Pre-History of the World's Favorite Sports Car</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html"><STRONG>Officially, history began for Porsche in 1950. But the company existed before that as a supplier for Hitler's war machine. New research suggests that the company benefited much more from its Nazi ties than it has admitted to.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html"><DIV class="spPhotoGallery"> <H4>IMAGE GALLERY</H4> <UL> <LI class="spFirst"> <A title="Launch gallery..." href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-47277.html"> <IMG width="160" height="120" border="0" title="" alt="" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-19752-thumbbiga-jvll.jpg" /> </A> </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A title="Launch gallery..." href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-47277.html"> <IMG width="160" height="120" border="0" title="" alt="" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-19765-thumbbiga-fhda.jpg" /> </A> </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A title="Launch gallery..." href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-47277.html"> <IMG width="160" height="120" border="0" title="" alt="" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-19763-thumbbiga-bryn.jpg" /> </A> </LI> </UL> <DIV>4 Photos</DIV> <A title="Launch gallery..." href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-47277.html"> <STRONG>Photo Gallery:</STRONG> <SPAN>Porsche's Dark Past</SPAN> </A> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html">"This is where it all began in 1950," declares company historian Dieter Landenberger. Yet Porsche's history is older -- and bitterer -- than that</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html">Jan Karolczak, for example, worked for the automobile manufacturer starting in 1942 -- as a forced laborer</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html">To this day, Porsche hasn't confronted this portion of its history.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html">portrays Ferdinand Porsche as "an unscrupulous profiteer in the Nazi regime</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652371,00.html">Viehöver examined archival material, some of it previously unknown, and estimates the number of Porsche's forced laborers at around 300. "Some of the barracks are still standing</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/411A56A4-C8DD-495F-9D29-925950D35C68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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