Nazi KdF Wagen Savings Card VW

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NAZI KdF WAGEN SAVINGS STAMP BOOKLET

A VERY RARE ORIGINAL
DAF KdF-WAGEN OR VOLKSWAGEN
AUTOMOBILE SAVINGS STAMP
BOOKLET WITH MANY STAMPS

PLEASE NOTE: this is one of several USM Books webpages listing very rare and historically important Nazi Volkswagen or KdF Wagen material. At the bottom of this page you will find links to other Volkswagen related web pages.

As most people with an interest in Third Reich history know, Hitler’s concept of a Kraft durch Freude (KdF or Strength Through Joy organization) Volkswagen car called for a small, cheap, economical if underpowered car that could be purchased by the masses, “just like the brilliant example of car ownership we see in America” as the Nazi Führer put it in 1936. The little beetle shaped car was designed to hold four people and to be able to attain 100 kilometers per hour (66 mph) on reasonably level paved ground, the operational speed of Hitler’s Reichsautobahn.

In order to get consumers to pay for the car in advance of its projected delivery a savings scheme was adopted in which approved buyers purchased a KdF- WAGEN SPARKARTE from their local Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF or German Labor Front) KdF representative for one Reichsmark (40 US cents). Once the buyer had the KdF-Wagen Sparkarte he was obligated to spend at least 5 Reichsmarks ($2.00) each week buying stamps to paste on the KdF-Wagen Sparkarte. KdF cars could not be ordered and paid for in cash.

The original KdF-Wagen Sparkarte we offer here is number 1/37 and was sold to Nikolaus Schmitt of Franz von Epp Strasse 2 in Neukirchen (Saarpfalz) on 27 August 1938 for a Volkswagen to be manufactured in 1940. he ordered the standard grey-blue “Limusine” which had a price of 990 Reichsmarks ($396).

Schmitt purchased 26 of the red and white embossed stamps to paste in this card spending a total of 130 Reichsmarks ($52). When World War II began in Europe in September 1939 all orders for VW cars from consumers were canceled by the German government. This original card and the 26 stamps in it are in very good condition.

This original KdF Car Savings Card is **SOLD**

Other original Third Reich KdF Wagen material offered on the USM website:

- March 1939 Motor Schau magazine with super rare KdF car transparency insert.

- February 1939 Motor Schau revealing the "secrets" of the KdF Wagen or VW Beetle.

- KdF car purchase agreement material for KdF Wagen number 1149.

- The rare 1939 KdF glove box-type manual ,,Der KdF Wagen von A bis Z’’ .

- An original KdF Sparkarte application form.

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