So many of Germany’s automotive greats were aligned with Hitler: Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz, Hans Stuck and Dr. Porsche. While these names achieved on-track success as promised, their names will forever be sullied.
But one small band of interlopers kept Germany from winning all the marbles: American heiress Lucy O’Reilly Schell launched her own Grand Prix team, putting Jewish driver René Dreyfus …
I can't believe I hadn't read about this before; I may have to check out this book.
It strikes me now that i once played a video game called Saboteur with a similar storyline; perhaps it drew inspiration from these real-life events. In the game, a racing driver ends up working for an arm of the French resistance in occupied Paris; aside from the part where he humiliates them by winning a race, he also sneaks into and sabotages their outposts/vehicles/etc. It's mostly been forgotten because it was sort of mediocre to decent, not great, but I enjoyed it at the time.
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