The Good Major was ok, as far as I'm aware.
During the war they were involved in war crimes involving forced labour. They then lied about it for 50 years, only finally coming clean in the Nineties when so many of the survivors had eventually succumbed to old age, it had thus reduced their compensation bill to a minimum.
https://www.thenation.com/article/vo...-blood-crimes/
Volkswagen's Wartime Travesty - CBS News
Snopczyk versus Volkswagen AG, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
And reports of their grudging, indirect admission...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/19.../06/iantraynor
OK, it was war, the Nazi's were a bad lot, and bad things happened. Had VW's management given an early and sincere apology then fair enough, but they've continued to acknowledge it publicly right up to modern times, indicating that they've learned little and place their public commercial image above their moral obligations.
Then they get caught defrauding governments and the buying public over emissions, a fraud which will have contributed to countless unknown deaths through air pollution illness. What did we expect from an organisation founded by the Nazi party?