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Did you know this about Adidas and Puma?

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The founders of Adidas were two Nazi brothers, one of which after having a disagreement and separation formed PUMA.

Wow can't believe I never knew this.
 
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Like they were members of the Nazi party in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s or they are more "modern" neo-Nazis?

Big difference...
 
Well, if it was formed in germany around world war 2, chances are it involved the nazi's somehow 🙂 sort of like BMW, etc. etc. etc.
 
mizzou said:
Well, if it was formed in germany around world war 2, chances are it involved the nazi's somehow 🙂 sort of like BMW, etc. etc. etc.
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Many businesses back then were puppets of the fascist state. The closer your ties to the Nazi party, the more rewards your business would get. Some were more complicit than others, such as the infamous IG Farben. Pretty much every major German corporation today has Nazi links: Seimens, BASF, Bayer, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, EADS, ThyssenKrupp

Same goes for Japanese fascism/Imperialism, including Mitsubishi and Kawasaki.
 
Yep. And Mercedes and BMW also built war machines.

And then you have interesting twists like this: The German company that produced Zyklon B during WWII, Degesch, later became Degussa AG (now Evonik-Degussa GmbH), which produced the anti-graffiti paint coating for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.
 
WaTaGuMp said:
White power?
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mmntech said:
Many businesses back then were puppets of the fascist state. The closer your ties to the Nazi party, the more rewards your business would get. Some were more complicit than others, such as the infamous IG Farben. Pretty much every major German corporation today has Nazi links: Seimens, BASF, Bayer, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, EADS, ThyssenKrupp

Same goes for Japanese fascism/Imperialism, including Mitsubishi and Kawasaki.
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Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
 
GTaudiophile said:
And then you have interesting twists like this: The German company that produced Zyklon B during WWII, Degesch, later became Degussa AG (now Evonik-Degussa GmbH), which produced the anti-graffiti paint coating for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.
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I don't see the irony. Zyklon B was a pesticide used long before the war. Hating on Degussa is like hating on the company that made the fertilizer used by the Oklahoma City bomber.
 
GTaudiophile said:
Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
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well that sucks. they still want reparations even to this day? why should generations of people born after the holocaust have to bear the shame or any responsibility for something they had nothing to do with? why aren't blacks and feather indians getting reparations here? are iraqis getting anything for the massacre of their people? what about the palestinans? who will give them reparations for putting up with an occupying aggressor? what about china? japan? iceland? greece?
 
Did you know that Germany during WW2 was supported by many of US corporations and banks (one even directly linked to Bush family)???

At that point in time, no company in Germany was exempt from that....perfectly normal.

My grandmother worked for Volkswagen during World War 2 and that company not only saved her life, it also saved my grandfathers life (he was a great chef for Nazis)....and it's where they met and had my father.

😎
 
Vdubchaos said:
My grandmother worked for Volkswagen during World War 2 and that company not only saved her life, it also saved my grandfathers life (he was a great chef for Nazis)....and it's where they met and had my father.
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So it's almost like that Rhiana song about love in a hopeless place but without all the drug abuse.
 
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