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Porsche founder’s legacy hits Nazi past in Czech hometown

Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the sports-car brand, created the first hybrid more than 100 years ago and designed the original Volkswagen Beetle. Those achievements haven’t counted for much in his hometown.That legacy will once again be tested as a new exhibition covering his career prepares to open in the Czech village of Vratislavice nad Nisou, once known as Maffersdorf, where Porsche was raised and residents have resisted municipal efforts to be associated with the auto pioneer.