The latest one comes in a book titled "The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen" by Paul Schilperoord. The book was published in Europe a few years ago, though only from the end of last year was it available in English. So why are so many interested in the Beetle but nobody cares about it quite the same way as, let's say, the Model T? The Beetle, as opposed to the Model T, was both a work of a genius and a product of sin. Henry Ford was a well-known tinkerer; by and large he never pioneered automotive technologies.