I believe this was one of his “jokes.”

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    212 months ago

    Hugo Boss

    Is that the Guy who designed the Nazi uniform?

    Why do I know this? Did Alex Jones and Kayne West talk about him maybe? I am now concerned for myself.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      262 months ago

      Yes, that’s what I was joking about.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          92 months ago

          That would be hilarious if you knew me and saw the shit I wear.

          Let’s just say I won’t pay more than $25 for a shirt.

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      222 months ago

      Eh, it’s one of those brands that has weird Nazi associations that still exists. It’s fine to have it as one of those “things” that you have in your head as a “hmm” mark around companies.

      • IBM helped make the bureaucracy of genocide more efficient.
      • Fanta is Coca-Cola for Nazis.
      • Hugo Boss made their uniforms.
      • Volkswagen was the Nazi-mobile.
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          122 months ago

          I didn’t know about that one, so I looked it up.

          I’ll actually give Goodyear a pass. My reasoning is that the partnership was to allow a German company, zeppelin, to produce and sell blimps in the US.
          They never produced aircraft for the Nazis, and they actually brought German engineers and researchers out of Germany.
          When the war broke out the partnership dissolved and Goodyear started producing aircraft and synthetic rubber for the allies. They never reformed the partnership, so no laundering the business like coke and Fanta.

          Beyond that, the zeppelin company and leadership was about as anti Nazi as you could be. The leadership at the time of their rise to power ended up being forced to share control with a fascist and was censored because he spoke against them.
          Less relevant but still an interesting bit of trivia

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              62 months ago

              Yup, and there are so many companies where they did the shitty thing.

              In this case Goodyear was founded in Ohio, and Zeppelin by Count Zeppelin. (Weirdly, Goodyear wasn’t founded by Goodyear, just named after him because he invented vulcanized rubber).

              The Goodyear-zeppelin partnership turned into Goodyear aerospace before the war, then severed ties with Zeppelin when the war started, and eventually got purchased by Lockheed Martin, which doesn’t make blimps, so it kinda just went away.

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        Leica and Zeiss making the cameras used for propaganda

    • TheLowestStone
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      62 months ago

      You can and should say a lot of awful things about the Nazis but you have to admit their uniforms were stylish.