02/05/2025 February 5, 2025 First built as East Germany’s answer to the “People’s Car”, the Trabant gave the country’s people freedom of mobility and a sense of hope. A feeling that ...

Within the Warsaw Pact, socialist vacationers did the same thing, only at beaches on the Baltic and Black Sea and—in at least one case—with beach buggies based on the East German Trabant.

The tiny, smoke-belching Trabant, East Germany's answer to the Volkswagen, has become a collectible in the U.S. Video/Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal ...