Nazis stole my idea for VW logo, claims designer

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By Bojan Pancevski in Vienna
(Filed: 17/07/2005)

A graphic designer who claims that he was commissioned by the Nazis to design the VW logo for Volkswagen, the German car giant, is suing the company for allegedly failing to recognise his work.


Nikolai Borg, 86, who has a heart condition, has been fighting VW since the 1950s without success. He accuses it of being too embarrassed by its Nazi past to acknowledge its debt to him, a charge the company denies. Mr Borg has now resorted to legal action in a last attempt to bring VW to account before he dies.

Mr Borg claims that his involvement with VW began in June 1939 - six years after Adolf Hitler met Ferdinand Porsche to discuss his idea for a "people's car" that could carry five people, cruise at up to 62mph, return 33 mpg and cost only 1,000 Reichmarks.

Porsche came up with a number of designs that formed the basis of the VW Beetle. According to Mr Borg, who was born in Germany to Swedish and Russian parents, he was asked on the eve of the Second World War to design the VW logo by Fritz Todt, a Nazi transport minister in charge of building motorways.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/17/wvw17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/17/ixworld.html

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1. Good for him . . .

. . . I hope he wins.

TYY