Wolfsburg is a city on the Aller River and has about 125 000 people. It's famous for having the world's largest car plant and is the corporate headquarters for Volkswagen.  The city was a planned city and was founded on 1 July 1938. It was named  Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben.  It was built as a home for workers producing the KdF-Wagen (Volkswagen Beetle). During the Second World War, military cars, aeroplanes, a nd other military equipment was built here by a workforce of mainly forced workers and prisoners-of-war. In 1942, German authorities established the Arbeitsdorf concentration camp for a few months.  The city and the Volkswagen factory were captured by American forces on 11 April 1945. About 7700 forced labourers were liberated from the Volkswagen factory. The Americans changed the name to Wolfsburg, after a castle located nearby. The area became a part of the British occupation zone in June 1945.  Wolfsburg is also home to the Autostadt, which i...