Its interesting how Volkswagen was a modified swastika, yet their current logo pays homage to their old one in shape. Honestly if I was them I would have gone an entirely different direction.
I doubt its a modified swastika any more than Columbia Sportswear logo[0] is a modified swastika.
In 1937 the Nazis were already well established in Germany, and WW2 hadn't started yet. I would think that if it was meant to be a swastika, they wouldn't have to allude to it, they would just use it. Ferdinand Porsche[1] (founder VW) was even a member of the Nazi party and SS and worked closely with the SS and received awards from them (though also characterized an a apolitical person, it sort of looks like he had no problems "going along to get along" in matters of furthering his engineering). There is a real story of VW, Porsche, and Nazis, but it's not clear that this logo[3] is part of it.
In 1937 the Nazis were already well established in Germany, and WW2 hadn't started yet. I would think that if it was meant to be a swastika, they wouldn't have to allude to it, they would just use it. Ferdinand Porsche[1] (founder VW) was even a member of the Nazi party and SS and worked closely with the SS and received awards from them (though also characterized an a apolitical person, it sort of looks like he had no problems "going along to get along" in matters of furthering his engineering). There is a real story of VW, Porsche, and Nazis, but it's not clear that this logo[3] is part of it.
edit: and then this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346188 by @d0lph. I've never heard of swastika references in the logo before. Colour me now-educated.
[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Columbi...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche
[3] http://i0.wp.com/blog.etuodi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/...