The Volksflugzeug (People's Aircraft) was a grand Third Reich scheme for the mass-production of a small and simple airplane in the 1930s. It was one of the attempts of the Nazi regime to use consumer technologies as a propaganda tool.[1] Unlike the Volkswagen car, the showpiece of the Nazi's attempt to appear to work for the good of the average German,[2] as well as the less-known Volksempfänger radio, the Volkskühlschrank refrigerator and the Volksgasmaske gas mask, the Volksflugzeug project was contemplated but never fully realized.[3]