'Porsche 356: 75th Anniversary' contextualizes the first Porsche and doesn't shy away from digging into the automaker's dark wartime past.
The book's strength lies in its straightforward writing dosed with just the right amount of technical detail. It also benefits from comprehensive storytelling with plenty of insider anecdotes and delves deeply into the complex history of the manufacturing of the 356, an area that has not been substantially covered in previous accounts of the model's 17-year lifespan.
The book is also an excellent resource on the vehicles designed and engineered in the early years of the Porsche consultancy, in the decades before 1948 when Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche released the first car to bear their last name. "I think a modern Porsche enthusiast maybe doesn't have a very good idea of the fact that Ferdinand Porsche worked in the automotive industry for 50 years before the 356 was built.
, fleets of military vehicles and powertrains—tanks, airplane engines, four-wheel-drive vehicles, amphibious vehicles, linked battery-powered battle field transports—and, perhaps most famously, the, the Nazi-sponsored "people’s car" that was intended to put Axis Germany on wheels during the war but was instead manufactured as military transport.
Maltby covers Hitler's rise to power and how he and the Nazi government were core fiscal sponsors of and contributors to the Porsche family firm and fortune, providing highly lucrative and supportive contracts for these wartime projects as part of their close personal relationship. He even speaks to Ferdinand Porsche's direct oversight of facilities where the labor of people enslaved in concentration camps was used in building military products.
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