Hugo Boss - Tailor to the Third Reich Documentary
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Oh, wow I didn't know he showed some humanity, so used to hearing about his business ties to the Nazis. Ty for this video!
@@wrecktitudemedia6514 But everyone knows that Germany was entirely innocent and that its people were only obeying orders.
@Wrecktitude Media
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Canadian here; Little known fact: In the late 1960's/early 70's I was a Boy Scout and bought a Scout knife & leather sheath. Years later, I was studying pictures of Nazi regalia, and noticed the Hitler Youth's knives looked EXACTLY like my noble Scout knife! Right down to the diamond-shaped cut-out on the knurled plastic handle! Mine had the iconic Scout symbol, a Fleur-de-Lis, in a diamond shape border, found no where else in Scouting. The diamond on the Hitler Jugend knife handle held the classic diamond-shaped HJ symbol, with a black swastika on a red & white background. Intrigued, I did some research, and it turned out the German knife company who made the HJ knives survived the war, and during the post-war period, Boy Scouts of Canada naturally turned to a German knife manufacturer, as they were, and still are, famous for their knives. Little did they Scout Leaders realize they were purchasing and issuing surplus Hitler Youth knife stocks after WW2, equipping us naive Canadian lads with a re-badged and re-purposed Nazi knife! If the story ever broke at the time, a huge scandal would have blown up, leaving the scouting movement with egg all over its faces!😮 Pretty ironic in retrospect, as both groups were youth movements, the original Boy Scouts starting in Britain, spreading world-wide, and the Hitler Youth an obvious clone, clad as Nazi brown-shirts in shorts! Sadly, I didn't learn all this until 40 years later, knife long gone...
Wow that’s wild.
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Did you keep the knife after finding out all that?
@@Jean-vr7vj
Keep it?
He framed it lol
Probably the same knife etc made its way to New Zealand.
WIth Nazi uniforms being so distinctive and customized this is a fascinating insight about the person behind it all. Great work again Peoples Profile.
No wonder the uniforms were so stylish
Oh no. Those uniforms must have made them evil!
Boss had nothing to do with the design and was just one of many companies that produced military cloths. The doc is missleading.
@@rainervolker4279 did you watch it good? Couse actually is one of the fews does that says what you says , that Hugo Boss didnt design the uniforms he just produced them. They even talk about the ones that really design them 14:10
@@ezkibela When you read most of the comments here, they think Boss designed them. That's why I think that the doc is missleading. They don't make it really clear so that everyone understands it. When you know the truth the doc is okay.
What an eye opener this documentary is. My Mother emigrated (legally) to the USA in 1933 from Berlin. I have the original paper signed by Joseph Goebles allowing her to leave Germany. Thank you for making this documentary.
Thanks. Kind of curious about Ferdinand Porsche.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I'm sure generations of young people had no idea about Hugo Boss during the war years.
I’d be interested to know if there are any allied uniform manufacturers that went onto make something stylish with all that experience?
Excellent documentary. I was wondering why certain fashion "experts" trash Hugo Boss clothing and now it's clear. I'll buy that suit anyway.
Astonishing the Hugo Boss brand survives. Shows people don't really care about much.
Same with Coco Chanel. Another Nazi affiliate
One fact that relates to this video, There's a textile museum in Germany that has an exhibit of clothing made during the Third Reich. However there's a part of it that has Haute Couture gowns from French designers that once belonged to the upper echelons of the Nazi Party officials wives. Including to my knowledge dresses owned once by Magda Goebbels.
It is what it is. My waffen SS uniform grandpa gave me is still packed away.
The Nazi Party uniforms have been designed by the party itself, the German military uniforms of the WW2 have been designed by the Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) wich was a quartermaster office.
So this is why the Nazis were the standard-bearer of Haute couture.
They had the most pimping military attire
If there's a tier list for Nazis, Mr. Boss would be pretty close to the bottom.
no honorable mention for Adidas and Puma?
My grandparents told they were impressed by the German soldiers appearances, they were always fresh, clean and well dressed, while the Soviets were dirty,smelly and were dressed awfully.
You gotta admit, he knew what style was. The WWII German military uniforms are absolutely the best looking uniforms in history. The SS uniforms look absolutely amazing. The Heer uniforms a close second. It's a shame that people associate the uniforms with the bad actions. If you're honest, and they lined up all uniforms of all nations, and didn't tell you which was which, and you didn't know anything about history, you'd pick the SS uniforms as the best looking. They are powerful, intimidating, crisp, clean, professional, they just look like you want a uniform to look if you're trying to not only appeal to recruits, but to make it look cool.
Oh dear. Ben, you need to sit in a dark room for a little bit my friend. Cool? Nothing is less 'cool' than a middle aged man using the term 'cool'. Especially when referring to Nazi uniforms.
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@@justmyster1976wow nazi uniforms are fashionable. That is what he referring. Just fashion.
The human incinerator were working very well, would you like to embrace that too? Tens of Millions innocent people world wide suffered, you degenerate think the uniforms were cool.
@@justmyster1976who coined the term "nazi"? 🤔🤔. Pretty sure they were national socialists and never referred to themselves as "nazis"
Krupp Family would be a great topic for a later videos! Really enjoy these! Thank you!
It’s so easy to judge people’s behaviors with the privilege of hindsight. I often wonder what I would have done in such circumstances to keep my family and myself afloat. I always come up with the same reply: I don’t know. We don’t know what we are capable of until we see ourselves forced into events. I’d like to think I would act with integrity, but I really do not know cause I’ve never been in their shoes. People and history are complex.
I also asked myself the question: What would I have done? At the time the Nazis began to rise, they had not yet killed millions of people and started the war. They promised work and rescue from the crisis. It's one thing that as an extreme individualist who doesn't have activities in large groups, pressures or performance comparisons like in sports, and who isn't a member of any clubs and organisations, I'm opposed to group pressure and uniformity. But what if I were offered a job that would allow my family to survive? And I can only get the job if I become a party member? Maybe I'll become a member, formally, but not actively participate? And have my own thoughts in private in my house? Rebelling against it on the inside, following on the outside...? So at the end of the catastrophe that happened, I would have been a follower in the eyes of the world: a party member. No visible resistance...
its not the same being force to do something or having a passion for it, like the SS, nit the same at all
Agreed totally. My own thought processes often follow yours.
We'll probably find out, looks like civil war in our future
I think you're right.
Makes you think that in times of war people can become and use such times for personal advantage, discarding morality and ethics. I wonder who would I have been in such times? Would I have been as moral as I think I am? The gray is in most things
What discarding of morality and ethics? They had them too, they did what they believed was right in their view, there is such a things as difference of opinion and none are superior to others, they lost the war so they are gone but you cant kill ideas.
The question of what you would be there is stupid, it is modern propaganda to guilt trip people because they lives in the past.
There were the SS and the gestapo and a population drugged up with meth and hitler. Not normal times.
To imagine how you would behave is folly.
You would have been a defendant in the Nuremberg trials.
@@annad8636 Or you would be with that attitute to slander strangers.
@@mojewjewjew4420 I don’t put it past myself or any other human
Say what you will about the Nazis, but those SOBs had the best uniforms.
hahaha yup!
And don't get me started about the flags
@@mavjimbo😅😅😅
When I say "Hugo Boss made SS uniforms" at the mall people look at me weird.
Ja more hate. With that British voice it never stops. Clean your own porch...leave my country alone. You probably were not alive. Yet.....easy to judge later. Go forward... leave my people alone....
Just like other clothing factories
It's great to see a documentary on the Nazi's uniforms. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
old news if history was mandatory in class....
so I would not be surprised if history repeats.... AGAIN!
Oh man i should've expected this when i told my nieces why the nazis were so fashionable.
I do not think Hugo Boss should have been punished. He had to do what you need to do as a businessman. Anything else is winner's power to punish everyone who benefited from Nazzi regime but should all businessmen and women go bankrupt instead of work with Nzzi regime?
Very good point and the only one that matters...every country in war time turns to it's production companies. Chevrolet is not responsible for killing people with the Abrams tank. If Boss said no... He would be shot..Same with Channel..not saying it's. Good mark ,but I get it...nobody bashes on Volkswagen or Fanta soda that are actually Nazi products
I have always worn Hugo Boss .... including their Eau de Cologne ..... and I drive an M3 and an AMG. I have had a dozen or so German Shepherds over recent years and I live in Lorraine in France .....an area annexed by the Nazis in WW2. Blonde haired too with blue eyes.
As an Englishman I am beginning to realize what a good Jerry I would have made.
Coz you know what quality means.
@@nightwish1000 Boss clothing is not good quality LOL
@@teekueit's pretty good
My grandfather and grandmother were both tailors, my grandfather a Jew was saved from the gas chambers to work from home making uniforms for the Nazis. He never spoke of this and we had no idea that he was a Jew. I asked if he could tell me of his life and childhood but he never did. I only found out by reading a book and seeing his surname in this book. It escalated from there. It was a shock to think we would not be born if he had another profession. He never liked his profession after that and only tailored to survive , would not teach my dad the business and dad thought him lazy. If only dad knew the full story. In later life he became a Christian and was a lay pastor preaching to 100 people each week. Thank you as this fills in some more gaps in my family history.
Ale hog boss to dělal rád a rád se se se svým jménem pak chlubil, něco jako coco Chanel- nacistická bitsch!
@@marceladvorakova5012 I watched that both were involved in this with Hitler. So much for liking both brands. I was shocked to hear this as my dad, causing and my brother and I would never have been born not any of my descendants. Not sure why it does not give options to translate your comments as not everyone can understand your comments. Thanks for reply.
@@myunknownland9272 tak bohužel, teď to není na překladač, tak nevím co píšete, rozumím Jen česky, rusky, německy ,
@@myunknownland9272 ?, Deutsh, rus Oder czech,
@@myunknownland9272 teď nerozumím, deutsch, czech, russisch, ono teď na ty odpovědi to nejde přepnout do překladače, nevím proč , ale já anglicky neumím, váš příspěvek jsem si nechala přeložit, teď to ale nejde
A very fair and factual based documentary. Thanks for sharing!
indeed, a rarity nowadays
Yeah but they’re also making a lot of excuses and downplaying Boss’ involvement.
@@The_Bigot maybe what you knew wasn´t all of it
@@TheEdudo derp
As an American who has never left the states.. I live for these types of docs!
Don't ask what the Americans do in times of war, after war, after war! They just can't stop fucking help themselves, and me being a first gen Australian from Europe because of the German war machine taking all the food, we have become America's little Yes-Boy… They said NO GOLD, who now has created the BIGGEST DEBT? So large they can't even pay the interest! No matter just borrow more, and more. They say NO NUKES! Who has got the most nukes and biggest of every damn thing, yet they can't win the war they start. What is going to happen when China finally gets sick of them? And Russia? And Korea's North?? Forget climate change, America is going to fuck us all over, guaranteed. WHO are the
A yrian Race going to be to rocket-off-to-Mars? you could ask or \just don't
And no other army got even close to the awesomeness of German military uniforms.
P.S.: Nothing is ever black or white. Some people bled out in quarry near Plaszow, others (like my grandmother) were sent to Siemens and was never abused. Not even verbally.
It's now time to make biographies of Porsche, IG Farben, Audi and other industrialists mentioned at the end of this video regarding their wartime record. I will wait for that.
they ate already made, just hit up utube, I'd send them but it takes time
Calling the forced labourers as forced really means slave labour and meant working under intolerable conditions, and starvation rations. All major German companies used slave labour.
Watch again. To begin with they were paid, only later were they enslaved.
@@AndyJarman so then they were slaves - my friends father was taken to slavery in 1941. from Rijeka, Croatia and never recieved no pay and he was highly skilled maritime engineer and worked on making U-boats
THANK YOU, this is my original post under this video to the "author" that is clearly a Nazi sympathizer today.
FORCED LABORERS, FORCED LABOR... WHERE IN FUCK DO YOU GET YOUR FACTS??~? THEY WERE SLAVES, THEY RECEIVED NO PAY, WERE HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL AND IF SOMEONE ESCAPED FROM THEIR WORKPLACE IN GERMAN FACTORY HIS FAMILY BACK IN CZECHIA, CROATIA WAS SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS - THOSE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES AND NOT FORCED LABORERS AS NOT SINGLE OF THEM RECEIVED GERMAN PENSION AFTER THE WAR
Não muito diferente do que faziam os Soviéticos nos gulags etc.
Both sides had done this. Britishers and Japanese were doing the same in their colonies in Asia.
I learn so much from this channel. Much appreciated.
Me too.
I welcome the all-round good narration on this channel, Thank-you
They know how to keep the musical score muted so it doesn’t interfere with the narration.
@CW It's one of the few channels that are not imposing nor distracting.
As a VERY advanced WW1/ WW2 German uniform collector...the whole Hugo Boss/ 3rd Reich thing is a bit overblown. I have and have owned well over 3-3500 Uniforms from the Germans in WW2 and I've collected more than 50 years....and on that time I've seen ONE Boss tailored uniform. Pree war they were either provided from RZM approved vendors or, in every Garrison town there were a few tailor shops. After the War started, they were made in every Country the Germans set foot in. I have tailored uniforms made in: Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Milano, Nice, Marseilles,Kiev, Warsawa, Praha, and many many other cities and shops. ( I have 3 Peek & Cloppenburg" Officer uniforms for example ) I'm not sure where the urban legend began that Boss was such a prolific " Uniform hersteller u. Schneider" but.. here we are. Boss was one of hundreds of Uniform " Lieferanten".
Bravo, thank you! I think with ww2 the industrialization took over but I know a story about a k.u.k navy academy in my town, Rijeka, Croatia, where officers got cloth, insignia, ribbons from central warehouse and they had to find a local tailor to tailor their uniform for them. Ordering a tailored uniform before standardized sizes was practicaly imposssible.
@@rcajavus8141 It is because k.u.k. officers are never issued uniforms. They must always seek out tailors to privately make their uniforms accordingly to k.u.k. regulations
no one never discusses about the British blockade of Germany after ww1. so they could accept the unfair Versailles treaty. Always in hindsight you are a genius.
And the Pommies/Brutish don't have a lot to crow about after all they created the first known concentration camps in the Boer war/s. Don't hear a lot about that either ~
Yet another fascinating biography - well-presented on a controversial figure. Superbly done.
No finer looking uniformed military than the Germans of the WWII era.
Fantastic.
And Yugoslavia Kings Army in Fatherland
Interesting and informative excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project.. Orator presented the documentary very well. Rough combat operations on both sides. Special thanks to Hugo boss for making this documentary possible. First story about military uniform manufacturing.
I would love to know which ham fisted dunce designed the British Commonwealth military forces uniform worn during the war.
Even the Americans had snappier looking dress uniforms than ours!
Compared to Mercedes-Benz, Krupp and Deutsche Bank, Hugo Boss seemed to be a rather benign and reserved part of the Third Reich. Not that he had ANY choice. Just for his company and his family to survive, he needed the contracts from the Nazi's. And as for the use of forced labor, or slaves if you prefer, if the work was going to get done, at that time, it was pretty standard throughout Greater Germany, and he really had no other choice. There just wasn't enough of the local population available, due to the war. So....he "adapted". And apparently, he was less abusive than many others in the German business community, notwithstanding the abuses of his "foremen", who were foisted upon him by the Nazi's. His post-war punishment seemed about right.
But he had had a chance. Nobody forced him to produce SS, SA and later Wehrmacht-uniforms. He did sympathize with them, he was part of him. And once in, there was no way out. But taking chances is not enough excuses for going into bed with the devil.
Thank you for the informative documentary though.
To suggest he may have been unaware who he was producing brownshirts for in the late 1920's is so absurd...LOL !!!
When I see people driving German cars I know they're antisemitic
Considering the fact that this Munich group, which was still quite insignificant and local in the 20s, was hardly known or taken seriously in sleepy Swabia at the time, this is quite credible. Later, of course, they were well known, and the fact that so many joined the party and collaborated with it wasn't all out of conviction, but much more to save their own ass. What would you have done? Collaborated or accepted closure and bankruptcy?
Without wanting to relativize any crimes that we Germans have committed, what have the English done against the exploitation of the colonized peoples? What the Americans against the genocide of the natives and enslavement of Africans? What could the Germans have done without risking their own lives? At the latest after you know who was appointed Chancellor, it was too late for Germany to react.
@@lottalehm Unless you were alive at the time you hold no responsibility for what happened.
@@mr.horrorchild4094Thank you for looking at it that way. I know that most of today's Germans are not responsible for the misdeeds or omissions of their grandparents, just as today's British and Americans are not responsible for the misdeeds or omissions of their ancestors. Unfortunately, a large part sees it differently, why else does the villain in some films, for example, still have a raspy German accent?
I enjoyed this. I had no idea the brand was that old much less involved in making nazi uniforms. Well presented
They made the Nazi uniforms for Indiana jones and the last Crusade, the costume department decided they may as well ask the original manufacturer..
@@charlotte-mg9wj They chose wisely.
If they had gone with the studio costume department, it could have then been said that:
"They chose (pause) *poorly.* "
Joining the Nazi party for business reasons was one thing, but joining the SS quite another, graver matter. They knew what was going on. And turning a blind eye to atrocious treatment of enslaved workers in his factory by his managers was also despicable. Not an Oskar Schindler, was he?
If Hugo hadn't taken up the initiative someone else would've. Business is business, clothing doesn't kill anyone.
But using forced, unpaid labour does.
Was he any different to any of the other businessmen of that time in Germany or other countries. To survive in the Nazi regime you had to be a party member and take the orders. Standing against it would ultimately lead to your arrest and seizure of your business. As the program points out, he did try to keep his workforce in better conditions than a lot of other factories.
No, this is not true. Research into the Topf & Söhne Company has shown that even refusal to work with the adminstration didn't necessarily mean severe consequences. Firms and companies complied willingly as it was economically more advantageous. Topf&Söhne in Erfurt provided the huge ovens for concentrations camps; and they even shocked the ministries with their zealous enthusiasm. Others simply found reasons why they weren't able to built large ovens.
It has been debunked that firms were in direct danger of severe consequences to the owners if they - for very vague reasons - could not provide a service. The same can be applied to Adidas anf other firms that decided to actively work for the war effort.
Yes, that not true. You could run a business without going in to bed with the worst Nazi organization like SA. It just would have been less easy.
I thought Spielberg's film Schindler's list was made precisely to lay to rest the idea that even those who knew about the date of the 'disappeared' were fearful of getting in the bad books of the many psychopathic sadists handing out supply contracts.
Schindler was just a business man doing what he could, obviously he was aware of the immorality of the situation - but when you are swimming with sharks it's best not to smell like chum.
It is so interesting how when we look back through our cancel culture lens we are so willing to condemn all things even remotely connected with the Nazi machine yet we readily buy goods produced from child and slave labour from regimes that persecute and imprison their dissenting citizens. No doubt all the modern day karens would have been first in line to join the ss ranks and collaborate with them.
Well, this spoils Boss clothes for me. Now I'm going to drink some Fanta in my Volkswagen.
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With addidas trainers?
Lol
I always drink Coca Cola and use good American products like IBM computers and Ford cars.
Alright time to fall asleep to this informative and relaxing video
Saying he was not as bad as other businessmen at the time is not saying much, considering how low the bar was...
I have always been curious about Hugo Boss's Nazis connections. Should he have faced stronger penalties? I have to say I'm not sure? It seems that so many other larger corporations, Volkswagen for example was allowed to continue. I just can't say, but karma did catch up with him.
Volkswagen was refounded from scratch after WW2 with only the factory equipment in common.
The British army ran the company after WW2 and used the equipment to manufacture vehicles for the British Army to use in Europe.
Ford Germany had more continuity than Volkswagen as Henry Ford kept the wartime German management intact post war.
@@allangibson8494 I dont think there was much of a choise to work for or not to work for the reich, if you dont work with the reich, you most likely will be relearning to concentrate at some camp somewhere, if you do, you will be fkd after the war.
"He didn't know who he was sewing uniforms for."🤔😅😂🤣🤣🤣
Hugo Boss is not a stupid brow8, he consciously joined the "SS" no one dragged him by the hand there.
As a progmatic and intelligent person, he knew who the fascists were and what they were doing.
So Hugo Boss was a conscious fascist who voluntarily joined the "SS".
And his 100% can be attributed to the military attacker, and call him fascists
Because he is a fascist.
Will you do documentaries on the post-war German Chancellors? I love all the documentaries but there is more to German history than the Nazis.
Thank you hoch lebe Deutschland......and all the countries on earth. Stop hate
But wat about 6 million??
This channel has quickly become my favorite keep up the good work! 👍 may I suggest one of my favorite presidents Calvin Coolidge
Old "Cal" was unfairly blamed for the depression. I think he was a good pres.
I think that if you wanted to survive in business in Germany in the 1930s it would be a pragmatic decision to become a member of the National Workers Socialist Party. Don't forget that during this time prior to world war two that very few people even suspected what was happening.
If he didn’t know of working conditions it’s because he didn’t want to know.
Well fuck. That commercial set-up...sucks big time and was way long
Any chance you could do a video on Wilhelm Canaris? Even his World war One history is remarkable, but if some of the stories about his WW2 influence are correct he had a significant impact on the course war for an individual.
German army & SS uniforms from WW2 are the coolest uniforms ever, before or since! The hat and breeches with jackboots looked tailor-made! Two other German outerwear companies thrived before and after the war, athletic shoemakers Adidas and Puma. Each company was founded by one of two brothers, Adolph (Adi) Daschler (Adidas); and Rudolph (Rudi) Daschler (Puma). Both company's headquarters are still located in the same German town the brothers grew up in!
That sounds like a good story right there
Im sure all those millions the scum murdered might disagree with you.
Dassler not Daschler
I'm an Adidas addict but I'm aware of what Boss was doing back then and honestly I really don't care, they're all dead and it doesn't matter anymore honestly... 😉
@@joshualeclair9729 There are a couple of good documentaries about the history of Adidas here on yt but only in German.
So was it coincidence that Stallone & Co were wearing Boss in Rocky IV when he had to fight Ivan Drago? 😆😆
Just makes me want to buy more Hugo Boss clothes 🤷♂️
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Boss makes great uniforms i think the British Army had a contract with Boss, and great suits 🇬🇧
Incredible story. The man really was a boss, and in my view, a good one. He gave people jobs in very difficult times, kept his cool, did not step too far out of line in case his factory and workers fell into the claws of a mad society. Sad that he was not recognized for saving all those polish workers from the death camps! Yes one girl committed suicide but, who could have stopped that during those times? Who knows what she had witnessed in the concentration camps!?
Easy to judge people today...
Who (among people commenting) lived those sad times ?!
Being german at that period wasn't easy. Resisting to nazi rise up was trully dangerous. 80% of my numerous mother family inaugurated jails since 33 and 35 then disapeared in concentration camps or on war fronts. Early opponents to Adolf right after his failed putsch in 20ties in München.
More : never forget... They were in every country (even usa.. Britain) people who were involved at least or truly partisans of nazi ideology.
On my father side ( irish-Us settled in germany right. after 1918) my gran pa, an agro-industry captain speculating on food supplies during 20ties and 30ties in all northern europe from scandinavia to middle europe including germany austria switzerland eastern countries... He fled from germany in 1939 (to france) with my dad and my gran ma. Then they stood cool and silent under vichy regime until liberation in 45.
I guess we must talk about this period but stay carefull about judgement on behaviors of those who lived this harsh and ugly bloody period under nazi repression. They all might be arrested tortured sentenced and disapeared very quickly. It was the fate of mine. My american gran ma herself was arrested in france and escaped from jumping a train to concentration camp by the interference of a top level german aristocrat officer member of Luftwaffe she knew before the war in germany. This guy recognised her on the peer just before she entered a wagon. He demanded to the police.chief of convoy to let her free... Giving his personal warrant for my gran ma. Arguing he was a top officer of Luftwaffe. It worked... For her.. This time. She was lucky. She was just arrested in Nancy (Fr) cose she had in her "little castle" as "guests" the german chief of police in Metz. An former vulgar butcher from stuttgart a fanatic silly nazi as many. She used to play Mendelsohn music piano... And read Heinrich Heine poetry to this guy and wife. Until the chief of Gestapo a guest during one evening party, discovered her use of banned jew celebrities under nazi regime. He said "Our services will invite yu to-morrow to make a trip in a nice train to eastern countries and provide yu a journey in a charming holiday camp". Fortunately she escaped to that. Unless I probably won t be there. My dad 17 y.o in 44 following college in Metz [german part of France] born in Köln and perfectly german speaker escaped to be sent on Russland front (as most of his friends of his college class, who died there) by moving to french territory in Nancy [Fr]. In 44 he joined First Us army units which arrived in eastern france after landing in normandy.
Many americans established before the war in germany... Married with german citizen stood in germany. They paid it harschly.
Mine escaped and refused to collaborate with nazis... As far as they could ! On both sides...
Were they guilty of the situation created by Adolf and co ?!
My Us gran pa a worthy guy before 39 lose all his 30 warehouses in 39.
But he survived. He and my gran ma. And My father. Lucky people compared with so many other poor people who couldn t protect themselves becose they had no choice.
What is this?...."orchestrate the regime's CRIMES...." 38.07ca. How can you ORCHESTRATE a crime? Could you PLEASE find another verbum!
I personally will not purchase or wear Hugo Boss products, But that is my choice!
I've got two Hugo Boss suits from the 1960s. They're among my best pieces. It's rather strange to think such a famous, well regarded company spent so many years hand in glove with the Nazis.
Not a problem in my eyes.
You ever consider the fact that we've all been lied to about National Socialist Germany's stand against global Communism just like we've been lied to about everything else?
So did Volkswagen, Krupps, the forerunners of Adidas & Puma (2 brothers who supplied boots to the Wehrmacht), Porsche, Deutsche Bundesbahn, IBM, SNCF and dozens of other companies.
@@simonh6371 yes. But many people don’t know. There were many companies supplying the Nazis with various things.
@@kimclarke5018 I think pretty much every company in Germany had to supply to the military as part of the war effort, just like in the UK for example. Technically they didn't all supply to 'the Nazis'' as that would be strictly speaking the NDSAP and the SS.
Nazis weren’t nice people but had spiffy uniforms 😊
Boss is the best brand in fashion. Their quality was always better than the others. Prices were fair as well.
Who would think that buried in this video at about 9:50 is a goddess unlike any other, who reminds that before WHO propaganda, female smoking was not just cool, but whoa daddy-deadly! Intoxicating beauty for sure! Carry on.
Definitely
Krupp family WW2.
Thank you for such an informative narrative. So disappointed to hear this of Hugo Boss, but as you indicated, he had or seemed to have a compassionate side. Also - thank you for highlighting the fact that other well known companies were involved in the Nazi regime' Quite alarming!
What was his compassionate side?
What would you have done have lived during that time...easy to.judge from the couch.with internet.....human nature. .he did what you also very likely would have done. This ignoranz. And,arrogance. To judge so harshly...
The most unexpected followers of nazis were the nobility. And disappointing too, if you regard nazism as a plebeian lowclass movement of "Kellermenschen"
@@ulrikjensen6841 Sadly many do make distinctions between classes of people. This, of course, leads to discrimination and other cruelties visited upon those considered lesser.
How is it alarming?
I love Hugo Boss t shirts , polo shirts and belts . It’s really expensive but amazing quality . I now know why the Nazis , including the SS wore such stylish uniforms , practically killer. The Proud Boys of North America wear slim fit Hugo boss polo shirts and fitted Hugo boss khakis 🙏🏾👍
I learn a lot from your videos! Thank you very much😊
I don't give a sht about the past of Boss I like their clothing especially the black label brand.
Do we stop driving VW or porche because of their past? If anything it should be the chemical companies we remove from society especially those producing items that caused deaths
Absolutely fascinating and enlightening. Thank you
Almost every german company has their hands full of blood. Basf, VW, BMW, Bayer, Mercedes, Hugo BOSS...
Back in Black… no matter who you are where you’re from what you believe
It’s still a great song!
As I've said, when people become powerful, they don't need to be good.
"It's just business."
Is the saying. Terrible business.
A very balanced documentary on a topic where it would be easy to demonize or distort. I can only imagine how difficult it would have been for any shop owner to navigate and survive during one of the most brutal and unforgiving times in European history. I don’t feel the company today should be punished for the events of WW2. Justice was dispensed after the war and it’s best to judge the current organization on their own merits.
Still the best cologne there is.
It sounds like he played the game to build the company and his wealth and paid the price for it. A lot of businesses did that at that time. They saw an opportunity and took it. The person forgot to mention Mercedes Benz on that list. Most of the cars used by the elite official were Mercedes Benz limos specially designed for each one of them.
This will be a banger 🔥
it was what it was for the time in which he lived in. you had to go along to get along it was survive or die. i believe he was a good man who did the best he could.
Please can you do one profile for Cecil John Rhodes 🙏🏽 you're going some good work much appreciated ...
Most Nazis and Germans in the 1930s and 1940s were bastards, but they had nice uniforms and style.
If Hugo Boss was given large orders for brown shirts, who else could he have thought they were for but the NSDAP?
Past is past....we should forgive start moving on....if you dig past of every country they all have dark history....
Top notch narrator.
So how much did Hugo Boss donate to have this video made? Trying to clean up the image of the man that joined and clothed the Nazis is a mammoth task 😅
Thanks a profile piece on Ayn Rand would be great
Thank you!
Very interesting , Ive loved high fashion since I was a kid . I would get my allowance and ride my bike close to ten miles to the local mall just to buy Polo Argyle socks at 13 . Im sure it was Woodward and Lothrop (outside of D.C. ) I had no idea Boss make the SS uniforms but it makes sense as the German uniforms were beautiful and intimidating at the same time . Thanks for the history and hard work .
What endless boring propaganda....no wonder we will.never have peace
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The Luciferian /masonic brotherhood is in full force with the prop in 2023 . 90% of what we see and hear
I remember Woody’s. I also shopped there in 1989 when I moved to DC
As a business man, it's likely that at least he has an idea where the brown uniform was ordered for. Germans where not blind of what is happening politically in Germany that time around 1927 or 1928.
It’s called slavery
Yes, the word "employed" was grossly misrepresentative of the sick situation.
Its only natural to side up to your respective governments in business but you are only accountable if they loose. America is a prime example!
I think Hugo Boss was a typical business man of the area running a company in a wartime economy. Practicalities and such not is to be expected such as joining a party to gain favor and contracts in a prewar economy. Using slave labor was common in wartime Germany, and he acted much more ethical than his industrial counter parts. He was not probably on the floors a daily basis to any great extent and was reactionary to abuses done by low end subordinates. At the same time, he could not afford to personally or business wise to attract unwanted attention from the Nazis who probably could have ruined and even sent him to a camp for straying to much out of the line. He acted ethical as to be expected at that time and made mistakes that he probably regretted. Hugo Boss was no Oscar Schindler but at the same time, no large industrial giant like Audi, Krupt or others he acted in the worse light.
I like the comment and agree, but I need to ask, going back to the the year of 1860, do you feel the same way of the people back then, say like General Lee, because all you say does apply to that time in history, yet 2yrs ago people were tearing down his statues, and the people of Hollywood backed it, but in the same breath back up Hugo boss company by spending millions on his company, I just ask because I wonder if people really know history, General Lee was also one of the kindest men in his time, and yes had slaves in the family but payed them and treated them very well
@@sca696 Amen!!! 🤠👍
Would never buy from them again, never forget and never forgive!
Excellent documentary and shows the many nuances during that time. Boss was not in the same league as the much larger major industrialists, some of whose CEOs actually made in person visits to the concentration and death camps.
Such as?
I like Hugo Boss, it's so nice, classy, top quality materials its the best
I think he just did what he needed to do for the health of his company and family.
Hugo Boss did what most business owners would have done in his place. His factories were, fortunately, not directly attached to a concentration camp run by the SS in their brutal fashion. Many Eastern workers willingly moved to Germany to work, as did so many Frenchmen and -women.
Probably Hugo boss wasn’t tailor but only maker
You know, if your gonna commit war crimes and fight the world then you need to have style while doing it.
On a more serious note why did so many american corporations and rich guys support Germany?
Because of hitler’s book-what sets hitler apart from other people is that his persuasion-it has many levels of persuasion.
One of the things I found that there different messages-one for the poor and one for leaders-often simultaneously executed.
As a businessman or leader you would need to keep tabs on the world, and during this most business and world leaders would had to have read his book, and probably have succumbed to its traps.
Self-superiority and grudges. Superiority complex. Love of authoritarian rule. Common gripes. Business dealings with Germany. And the problem wasn't of endorsing Germany, as Americans had nothing against Germany. Investors and like-minded fascists all supported the comon thread of hate and 'purging' the country of undesirables. It is still popular, even though it always leads to genocide when it is finally realized. Fascism will always be a minority but that is the point. But fascism always loves other fascism elsewhere.
Because many members of the American, British and French aristocracies and business owners held anti-semitic views and supported what the Germans were doing.
@@alexwilsonpottery3733 That begs the question why they had those views, there must be a reason right?
They were more afraid of communism.
I have never been interested in fashion until now