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Already today you have used at least one product of a society that, at one time, worked for the Nazis now, on behalf of not being prosecuted, we d like to clarify that we are not accusing one of the companies below to always be in bed with the Third Reich all, to our knowledge, have long disavowed Hitler's regime as both monstrous and more profitable.
No yuppie wardrobe is complete without their favorite combination Hugo Boss, Hugo dress shirt boss, Hugo tie boss, Hugo Boss Sunglasses Hugo Cologne Boss, Hugo Boss-string man and Hugo socks boss Stuff the string Even if you are too poor to boss products, you can recognize a mile boss ads They always have the serious looking men who, despite having enough money for expensive suits, seem to be addicted to heroin They usually wear tight clothing, and the look on you thoughtlessly with hollow eyes of the infinite, the desire to scream, I'm attractive and I am very unhappy.
Job with Nazis spoke of the stern, closeted white men, Hugo Boss manufactured the sleek all-black uniforms for Schultzstaffel, better known as the SS boss So today uses black for slimming effects, in SS uniform, he was used to command respect and fear in the population while their weapons and propensity for genocide treaties probably all the necessary respect commander very well, black uniforms absorb sunlight during the months summer, causing the wearer to sweat uncomfortably and stink like a Mongolian package shit members camels Hitler Youth were also decked wear bosses, teach children a lesson early looking good while beating minorities.
So how evil they were Most uniforms were made in what can be considered the precursor of modern sweatshop, sometimes by as prisoners of war, it is impossible to underestimate the importance these uniform throughout Nazi Image to date, they are essentially synonymous with evil influence of the design was widespread, especially in the movie where their influence was noted in the outfits of the Imperial officers from Star Wars.
But, unlike the products of certain other companies on this list, the uniform weren t directly responsible for the death of people In fact, since they actually did bearers uncomfortable and smelly for a quarter the year, compared to the rest of the companies on this list Hugo boss probably deserves a medal of some sort.
German automaker Volkswagen came on the scene just before the Second World War, and was founded by Ferdinand Porsche There ancestor of these fast and expensive cars that wind up becoming fast and expensive fireballs during the impact with a solid object.
Long before the name Porsche became synonymous with expensive toys for rich, Ferdinand was the designer of the most produced car of all time mass of the Volkswagen Beetle.
Job with Nazis What is more surprising, however, is that Porsche's partner in the brains of the Beetle was also the mastermind of the First World War that crazy, affable buffoon Hitler Hitler specifically wanted a everybody vehicle Cheap , solid in Germany would be able to drive the man to be opportunistic businessman that he was, Porsche quickly whipped up the Volkswagen Beetle and lobbied strongly for the approval of the Fuhrer Soon, Porsche had its workforce plants slave labor churning thousands, and finally fly concessions.
So how were they wrong if anything, the Beetle is perhaps one of the most misunderstood cars in history people watch its rounded shape and the anthropomorphic face and instantly think of love , peace and smoking massive amounts of pot, but it was really designed as a tool for daily life in the Third Reich still in a good mood to give credit to Porsche to design a car so incredibly cute that one forget it was built by sick slaves in a dark factory dank in Stuttgart, Germany.
If you squint, Herbie the Love Bug is a Hitler mustache.
IBM is one of the few IT companies which dates back to the 19th century, a time when perhaps the information technology involved putting a helmet on your carrier pigeon one hand, it means they've been a Fortune 500 company since 1924, giving them a head start of 60 years on the likes of Microsoft and other Macintosh over a century of history gives you many opportunities to monstrous blunders relations public.
Job with Nazis You're probably thinking, wait a minute IBM was US The closest America ever had was when the Nazis Indiana Jones wore this uniform as a disguise in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
In fact, before the war, the American company took what can be generously described as a morally ambivalent about the whole thing Hitler American groups like the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institute, directly funded projects to Nazi eugenics early 30s where the objective was to find ways to breed a master race course, once the war started, most US companies cut ties with IBM Hitler, on the other hand, decided to stay and see where he was going with this whole thing final solution.
And this is the point where things take a horrible turn to get out, we will try to compensate for the horror with kittens playing on the computer, we'll just watch them while we type.
At that time, the only way to keep track of huge databases was an extremely complex system involving punch cards and IBM was the best in the construction and maintenance of these cards databases databases perforated IBM can keep track of all the great books, medical records, the Jews.
According to a book a guy wrote about it as soon as the Nazis invaded a country, they reform the registration system using IBM punch cards Then they track of all Jews, Gypsy and other non-Aryan up that they are all gathered on cattle and carts, to stop side wasn t Space Mountain.
So how were they hurt the anti-corporate documentary shameless The Company displays real images of IBM punch cards used in the detention camps, about two minutes in this video.
That followed the people based on their religion, their location and even how they run of, for example, the prisoner code 8 was a Jew, Code 11 was Gypsy Camp 001 code was Auschwitz; Code 002 was Buchenwald status code 5 was executed by the order and the code was 6 people gas chamber holy shit Seriously, fuck IBM.
Here, we'll look at this video of a kitten fight against September 1 laptop or eight times.
These days, IBM claims to have been victims of circumstances they had a subsidiary in Germany long before Hitler took They say the company has fallen under Nazi control, like all other companies out there when records show that not all true art, if IBM has sent internal memos in their offices in New York, recognizing that their machines were the most effective Nazis, and they made no effort to end the relationship with German branch.
Bayer, the massive pharmaceutical company that is most famous for making Aspirin, also is behind such wonder drugs as Levitra and, at one point in their history, heroin.
Yes, we can go on for ages about how wonderful aspirin is to stop heart attacks or how Levitra can give you wood for weeks, but really, Bayer is the most important for the given heroine's name the drug was promoted as having heroic properties, which is ironic since by all accounts turns into a quivering shell of a man.
Bayer has also lent his name to a German football team, and to be honest, we're not sure if it's a good idea to have your team the name of a company that sold smack Imagine what the mascot should We think like a Pete Doherty decked out in a blue suit with antennas fours passing midway through the chicken dance.
Job with Nazis Again, it is probably even worse to name your team after the company that made the Zyklon B gas, the substance that killed millions of people in Yep concentration camps, Bayer was part a large conglomerate IG Farben, who concoct thousands of Zyklon B killer cans gas gas was invented by Fritz Haber, a man whose life is so incredibly pathetic that you almost forgive him for indirectly caused millions deaths, while looking as bad as humanly possible.
We see here shortly after uttering the phrase, No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
After overseeing the first use of chemicals in the war, his wife committed suicide in his garden with his service revolver to protest After Hitler took over, Haber decided to renounce Judaism to integrate, we were told that it was still Jewish according to rules of Nazi art because his mother was Jewish, he died of a heart attack while fleeing the country where he spent his life serving the chemical he has invented to origin to kill insects was used to kill a number of his relatives in concentration camps.
You know what we think we'll just pack and sail off on a deserted island somewhere, we'll just walk away from all this history we and our kittens.
So how evil were they on the one hand, the company that actually manufactured the gas is partly owned by IG Farben and Bayer was just a part of IG Farben It's like the way we do not think General Electric as a military contractor, because they do so many other things.
Bayer, however, continued his former douchebaggery first in modern era, Aspirin was invented by a Jewish man, Arthur Eichengrun whose name Bayer still refuses to recognize to this day, the official history of the company denies involvement Eichengrun in the invention of aspirin, and states that Aryan invented the drug, because we all know, Aryans are better at everything.
Such Aryan was a pretty thoughtful boy Bayer employed by the name of Josef Mengele, who Bayer sponsored to seek medical discoveries in the important field of torturing people to death.
We have tough questions for Bayer In fact, just one question, which is, Bayer Damn Dude.
Siemens AG is the massive global conglomerate that makes everything from circuits to wind turbines to Maglev trains It has nearly half a million people worldwide and is listed on every imaginable scholarship The company had its origins in the 19th century when the famous scientist Werner von Siemens tired of discovering things and decided to make some money instead.
Of course, he was dead long before the 1940s, when Mr. Werner von Siemens is guilty of nothing more than not to get into the porn world with the gift of a name the company that gave the name in may as well have s headquarters inside a dormant volcano, probably because he could not have been worse if she was trying her hardest.
Job with Nazis Siemens was the main player in the denazification of Germany The company, run by the son of Werner, Carl and his little son, Hermann, struggled in the wake of the First World War and the Great Depression and had to win the quick dough when Hitler came to power in 1930, it was the signal for Siemens executives to begin construction of factories, and nowhere was better than the property near Auschwitz neighborhoods homey Buchenwald.
Hundreds of thousands of slave workers were employed to build all kinds of goodies for the German army to use both on the western and eastern fronts Although they weren t the only company in providing time effort German war, they were certainly the most prolific Siemens was in charge of rail infrastructure of Germany, communications, power generation the list If the Reichstag was the mastermind behind the war, Siemens was certainly right hand Hitler stroking the ecstatic glory.
So how evil were they we will let you enjoy the height of the Nazi terror in the 1940s, it was not unusual for a slave laborer to build electric switches for Siemens in the morning and be blown in a Siemens gas makes room in the afternoon.
Otherwise, why the Allies destroy four fifths of the plants society during the war because they were not bored fuck it because they were planning to blitz the brand mark of Nazi Germany back in hell where it belonged.
These days Siemens is obliged to pay due to a series of trials survivors So at least they own up to it, right.
Well, a few years ago, in an act of fuckery insensitive so colossal that it could clear the sun, Siemens tried to trademark the name Zyklon with the intention to market a series of products under the name Including gas ovens.
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