Today, eighty-nine years ago, on February 26, 1936 (February 4, 1936 in the Lunar calendar), the German Volkswagen was born. The German Volkswagen built in Germany on February 26, 1936, the German Volkswagen built by Ferdinand-Porsche. The first factory for the production of such a car was in Fars Leibniz in Saxony; Hitler personally attended the inauguration ceremony of the factory. The Germans admired the American car king Henry Ford. Hitler attempted to compete with Ford by producing large volumes of cheap Volkswagen cars.