Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle as Hitler's "people's car," engineered the Tiger and Ferdinand tanks that fought on the Eastern Front, and used slave labor from concentration camps in his factories. After the war, he was imprisoned by the French, released, and lived to see the Beetle become one of the best-selling cars in history — a vehicle conceived in Nazi ideology that became a symbol of 1960s counterculture.

This episode traces Porsche from his Austrian engineering origins through the Volkswagen commission from Hitler, the wartime tank production, the slave labor, and the postwar transformation of the Beetle from Nazi project to global icon.

• Porsche's early engineering career and the commission from Hitler to design a car every German could afford
• The Tiger tank, the Ferdinand tank destroyer, and the ...