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DZ Season 022 Part 07 Big Brands and the Nazis - Skoda
In 1945 it looked like Nazi Germany had lost the war, but there was a huge BUT - the new Škoda flying saucer looked unbeatable and light years ahead of anything the Allies could put into the skies against it. It could fly at 2900 kph. The fastest Allied plane could only fly at less than half that speed. It could stop
in mid-flight and hover. It could fly in any direction from wherever it was. It would have shot every Allied plane from the skies and given Germany total air supremacy. Final victory in World War II seemed to be in reach for the Germans. This Danger Zone programme looks at the Škoda company and the crucial part it played for Nazi Germany in World War II.
Tag words: Volkswagen; Audi; SEAT; Bentley; Bugatti; Lamborghini; Porsche; Ducati; Scania; MAN; Václav Laurin; Václav Klement; Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia; Skoda-Hispano-Suiza; Joseph Vollmer; PzKfw III; PzKfw 35(t); PzKw 38(t); A7 tank; Adolf Hitler; Sudetenland; Neville Chamberlain; Reinhard Heydrich; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Wansee; Edvard Beneš; Skoda Works; Albert Goring; flying saucer; climate change; Iron Curtain; Communists; Lada; Estelle sedan; Prague; Prasna Brana; Velvet Revolution;
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By Paul FordyceIn 1945 it looked like Nazi Germany had lost the war, but there was a huge BUT - the new Škoda flying saucer looked unbeatable and light years ahead of anything the Allies could put into the skies against it. It could fly at 2900 kph. The fastest Allied plane could only fly at less than half that speed. It could stop
in mid-flight and hover. It could fly in any direction from wherever it was. It would have shot every Allied plane from the skies and given Germany total air supremacy. Final victory in World War II seemed to be in reach for the Germans. This Danger Zone programme looks at the Škoda company and the crucial part it played for Nazi Germany in World War II.
Tag words: Volkswagen; Audi; SEAT; Bentley; Bugatti; Lamborghini; Porsche; Ducati; Scania; MAN; Václav Laurin; Václav Klement; Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia; Skoda-Hispano-Suiza; Joseph Vollmer; PzKfw III; PzKfw 35(t); PzKw 38(t); A7 tank; Adolf Hitler; Sudetenland; Neville Chamberlain; Reinhard Heydrich; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Wansee; Edvard Beneš; Skoda Works; Albert Goring; flying saucer; climate change; Iron Curtain; Communists; Lada; Estelle sedan; Prague; Prasna Brana; Velvet Revolution;