So, VW as a brand has origins there, but there's little other continuity. It's a fairly different situation.

Same for Ford in the US, right?

I once saw a Volkswagen with the vanity plate "FORD". A little concerning.

I think people are missing the joke here (notice the italicised 'are').

Not uncommon :-)

Indeed,"formerly" carries real weight. It's one thing to have car company with highly distributed ownership that was once Nazi aligned the better part of a century ago, and an entirely different thing to today have a personal piggy bank company for a billionaire Nazi active in global politics.

If a VW exec throws a Hitler salute in public, they will no longer have a job the next day.

When Musk does it, he gets a trillion-dollar pay package.

So no, there's no comparison to be drawn here.

Long ago Nazi vs currently another brainfart away from invading