From H ighway R ight to State R ight
The attack changed with the invention o f machines to destroy.
<sup>-</sup> Errard, known as Bar le Due
AS SOON AS it takes power, the Nazi government ofers the German proletariat sport and transport. No more riots, no need for much repression; to empty the streets, it's enough to promise everyone the highway. This is the "political" aim of the Volkswagen, a veritable plebiscite, since Hitler convinced 1 70,000 citizens to buy a VW when there still wasn't a single one available. The "NSK" (National Socialistisches Kraftahr Korps: the National Socialist automobile corps) is organized locally, according to the categories of privatelyowned cars. It soon gathers half a million drivers and trains them to drive over every kind of terrain, -to shoot while driving, etc. Every member of these "sporting" clubs thus returns, in this exercise, to the premonitory techniques of Bonnot's and Al Capone's vehicular crimes. But if it is true that in 1 9 4 1 Brecht, in The Resistable Ascent of Arturo Ui, was content to make a gangster Hider's double, the similarities nonetheless go beyond simple parody. The American migrant's race to power is, like the fascist tragedy or the anarchistic adventure of Bonnot in 1 9 1 1 , inseparable from the revolution in transportation. Like Mussolini and Hitler, the great figures of American
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