The claim
Supposedly you can see a swastika if you turn the VW logo quickly.
Our conclusion
The video was demonstrably manipulated, the swastika was shown during filming and the VW logo was hidden.
The VW Group has its roots in the Nazi era, which is no big secret and is openly communicated .
At that time, the three DAF officials Paul A. Brinckmann, Alexander Halder and Werner Boltz founded the company with the support of Adolf Hitler. A video that has been circulating for years is said to provide evidence of an “Easter Egg” in this regard: Apparently you can see a swastika if you quickly turn the VW logo.
But upon closer inspection it becomes apparent that the video has been manipulated.
The video
The alleged evidence video has been circulating since the early 2000s and is therefore a real fake veteran. Shortly afterwards, various people tried to imitate this phenomenon without success, for example here in a video from 2006:
The website on which the claim was made has long since ceased to exist, but the video still exists and was uploaded again to YouTube in 2017, for example:
In fact, it looks like the VW logo turns into a swastika when you spin it quickly.
But why does this work in the video above, but not in the self-experiment with the drill? Do you need a very specific speed? Or is there perhaps something completely different behind it?
We look frame by frame
You can also do this check yourself by calling up the above video directly on YouTube and reducing the playback speed to 0.25.
For our check, we downloaded the video and reduced the speed to 0.06 in an editor in order to make the manipulation even more clearly visible.
At the beginning of the rotation the VW logo is still clearly visible (1), then the swastika slowly shines through while the logo is still very clearly visible (2), (3), finally the logo is completely hidden, instead this Swastika visible (4).

Even newer videos with a continuous increase in the speed of rotation could not detect a swastika shape. No surprise, because the distributed video was clearly manipulated, otherwise the logo and the swastika wouldn't be visible for a few frames at the same time.
Conclusion
The swastika that appears is not an “Easter Egg”. Many users tried this themselves and couldn't verify it, but a frame-by-frame examination of the video shows that it was manipulated: the VW logo was hidden and the swastika was shown to create the illusion.
Also interesting:
A picture is currently circulating on social media that supposedly shows schoolchildren in Ukraine celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday.
No, schoolchildren in Ukraine did not celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday
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