A few days ago they published images from a coffee table book called "Wolfsburg - Images of a Young City" from 1963 which is also forming part of an exhibition in Berlin.
The main article, and all the images are here: http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/ShowTopicAlbumBackground/a25978/l0/l0/F.html#featuredEntry
The sub-plot to the exhibition and the city built around the VW factory is that of a very large Italian community who came to the city for work in the post-war German economic boom.
What is striking about the images is the absolute ubiquity of the Beetle.
Personally, I find it hard to imagine living in a town where practically everyone you know is doing the same job earning the same wage. Speccing a 1300 S over a 1300 A would have singled you out as being seriously aspirational, adding a set of spots probably marked you as borderline mad.
On the other hand, maybe it was a been a great place to live as everyone would have had to have moved there from somewhere else. By all accounts the work was well-payed by national standards and for the first time in a generation there was lasting peace.
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