NEIN

NEIN Digital collage, 2025 – Honys Torres

NEIN is a fierce satire about corporate deception and historical memory. The artwork portrays Adolf Hitler with green skin and horns, holding a psychedelic Volkswagen Beetle—an icon of peace for the hippie movement, yet originally conceived as a propaganda tool of the Third Reich. The car, promoted by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche, was part of Nazi industrial strategy as early as 1936.

Decades later, the same brand—Volkswagen—was at the center of the Dieselgate scandal (2008–2015), manipulating emissions data in the U.S., nearly collapsing financially and tarnishing the prestige of Made in Germany. The piece ironizes this double standard: the Beetle, painted with flowers, hides a dark origin and an industry that continues to deceive under new disguises.

With phrases like “AUF WIEDER SEHEN”, “NEIN #1”, and the Volkswagen logo embedded in the dictator’s uniform, NEIN turns the automotive icon into infernal parody. It’s a critique of media power, symbolic whitewashing, and the fragility of collective memory.

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