Will the struggling giant Volkswagen survive?

The poster child of Germany’s post-war economic success and now a symbol of Europe’s struggle for industrial prominence, Volkswagen has never been fully in control of its fate.

From its founding by the Nazis in 1937 and its return to German ownership by the British Army in 1949, to repeated attempts to reform the nation’s bloated factories, this crisis-prone group became embroiled in a tangle of managers, shareholders, workers and politicians.

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