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Not a single person involved in the first was involved in the latter.

What a load of bullshit. The Volkswagen company has been more or less controlled by the Porsche-Piech family all the way from the 20s to today. Yes, some of the more prominent Nazis have been kicked out and briefly sentenced by the Allies, but as usual, shit floats to the top, as is obvious by the fact that they still practically run the show to a large degree.

It (volkswagen lower case) was part of the government prior and during the war It (Volkswagen, the company, upper case) only came into existence after the war

Volkswagen has been state-owned until 1960, way after the war by the way, and the state/province of Niedersachsen still holds a 20% minority in the stocks. Yes, they got privatised. No, it is still the same entity, operating out of (among others) the same factory.

Besides, how would you even, logistically, replace every single engineer, designer, worker, manager... of a company and keep it operational? The Allies had to sweep a lot of things under the rug in order to make post-war Germany functional. If you had sentenced every Nazi collaborator to prison, most of the country would have been empty. Whether that was a good or bad decision in hindsight, well, that's a whole other debate. That does not mean that the current leadership and workers are Nazis because of that, of course.