decars1-10, Exercise 3: A reading and visiting plan

Model answer (one possible plan; check what is open and which editions are available):

1. Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart: the history of Benz and Daimler from 1886 (Chapters 2 and 3). Museum accounts tell the company's story, so read independent histories alongside.
2. Autostadt and the Volkswagen sites, Wolfsburg: the People's Car and the post-1945 revival (Chapter 6). The company has published historical studies of the forced-labour years, so look for them.
3. A historian's study of the Autobahn, such as Thomas Zeller's on the landscape (Chapter 5): to separate propaganda from record.
4. A museum or archive on the GDR, such as a Trabant or Wartburg exhibit, and memoirs by East German owners (Chapter 8).
5. A recent, independent account of the diesel scandal and the electric transition (Chapter 10).

Justification: the list covers invention, the Nazi-era programme, the people's car, the East German cars and the present-day tests, and mixes company sources with independent ones. Alternatives: the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the BMW Museum, the Porsche Museum, or a drive along the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.