The first time I heard it spoken at a Volkswagen event was ironically in Hanover of all places – where the purest form of German is spoken. Andreas Renschler, head of the VW Group's newly created commercial vehicles holding, began addressing guests in a foreign language: English.
This was strange because senior executives at VW, that most German of all companies, never hosted a big event at home in English, the lingua franca of the business world.
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