On November 19, 2025, author Paul Schilperoord was a guest on Chris Abramson’s podcast Note The Past to talk about his book The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz – The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler’s Volkswagen. The conversation touched upon a whole range of subjects, from early automotive innovation and development of a people’s car to the later contact between Josef Ganz and Heinrich Nordhoff, to explore the contributions and impact this Jewish engineer had on the design of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle.
