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In the late 1920s, many leading American companies began to invest  heavily in the Weimar-era German economy. Many industries, including the  automotive industry, had significant industrial potential as the country  emerged from its economic crisis. Germany, as the birthplace of the automobile,  had always been one of the innovators in fashion and new technology in car  production, but at that time the country was in significant financial  difficulties and needed significant investment.
              Henry Ford, the father of the automotive industry in the United  States, had great ambitions to expand sales of his model line in Europe amid  oversaturation of Ford's home market. In 1928, a cooperation agreement was  signed between Ford and the leaders of the state of Rhine-Westphalia, and two  years later in the presence of Henry Ford and the mayor of Cologne Konrad  Adenauer, the grand opening ceremony of the new car and truck manufacturing  plant took place. Ford’s company had supplied a quantity of critical equipment  to unify cars built in the United States and the subsidiary in Germany.
              German-made cars were very similar to their American cousins,  differing only in minor details such as small exterior features. After the  Nazis came to power, led by Hitler, cooperation between the United States and  Germany did not stop but increased as the new government set a course for  gradual remilitarization, and, consequently, for an increase in the number of  vehicles in the newly formed army. The Ford concern transferred more and more  developments to its established enterprise in Germany.
              Among the company's cars, the  most popular was the Ford Eifel 20C - from 1935 to 1939, they produced more  than 61,000. Later they produced the V8-48 model (more than 5,000). Production  of the G78A began in 1937, and a year later the G81A. These cars had a more  powerful 8-cylinder engine, improved body shape and increased chassis strength.
              With the beginning of World  War II, a significant number of cars, including private ones, were  requisitioned for the army. This fate befell the G81A, which from the first  months of the war was used as a light staff vehicle by Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and  police units. This car was used mainly in the first years of the war and at the  beginning of Germany's Eastern Campaign, because in off-road conditions and the  USSR's winter mud, its use was significantly limited.
              Vehicles operated in European countries, which had a developed network  of roads of a better standard, lasted much longer, and some cars of this type  were in use as late as 1943. In Germany, G81A police cars were used almost  until the end of the war.
              The redevelopment of Ford's plants, which had long since been  nationalized by the Nazi regime to produce only trucks, needed by the army in  large quantities, resulted in a lack of spare parts for many types of cars, so  in 1944 cars of this type were the exception rather than the rule. Although  their contribution to the war was relatively minor, they were often found in  military units, and still played their part.