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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Journalist and author David de Jong explores the impact of the Nazi regime on German businesses and how Ferry Porsche resurrected his father’s legacy from the ruins of defeat.
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0:15.0 | The Wondry! It's 1948 at the Reuter Metalworks in Stuttgart, West Germany. |
0:33.4 | 48-year-old Alan Robert walks through the factory floor, his eyes drawn to a partly built sports car being worked on by a one-armed man wearing grease-stained coveralls. |
0:43.6 | Alan can't help but wonder whether this man lost his arm in the war. |
0:47.2 | The worker certainly wouldn't be the only soldier who returned with life-changing injuries. |
0:52.1 | But not wanting to bring up that subject, Alan calls out his real purpose. |
0:56.3 | Hey, excuse me, I'm looking for Ferry Portia? |
0:59.3 | The worker nods in the direction of a doorway. |
1:02.5 | And Alan walks over to the door, knocks, and opens it. |
1:06.7 | Behind a desk in a simple office is Ferry Porsche, the managing director of his family business. |
1:12.1 | He barely looks a day older than the last time Alan saw him, although that was many years ago. |
1:17.1 | In 1931, Alan Robert was known as Adolf Rosenberger, and he'd invested in his friend Ferdinand Porsche's new car design business. |
1:25.2 | But after Adolf Hitler came to power, Rosenberger was squeezed out of the company due to his Jewish faith. |
1:31.6 | He's now an American citizen with a new name, and today marks the first time his return to Porsche |
1:36.9 | since fleeing Germany in 1935. |
1:39.8 | The ferry rises from his seat and offers his hand. |
1:42.9 | Adolf, it's been a long time. |
1:45.0 | It's Alan. I'm Alan Robert now. |
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