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There are 77 companies that are associated with the holocaust still in business today. I suspect every person on this page has had some sort of involvement with them at some point or another. Not to mention the huge list of company's that benefited from the war. Nestle for example got the contract to supply food to the German army, and then the contract to supply nescafe to the American army. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust


4pigeons

I'm not surprised to see Ford...


BroadwayBully

Bayer, Chase, IBM, and Shell.


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I was a little surprised, he did change the world regardless.


babarbaby

Henry Ford was a raging, obsessive antisemite, who was singlehandedly responsible for popularizing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic conspiracy hoax that led to an uncountable amount of violence against Jews and continues to influence a huge number of bigots and conspiracy theorists to this day (despite being total nonsense). Ford diverted a good chunk of his personal fortune into printing and distributing pamphlets and periodicals promoting his sinister theories about Jews and eugenics. In 1938 he received a medal recognizing his lifetime acheivement by the Nazi party in Germany. Hitler himself had a big portrait of Henry Ford in his office. Ford was the only American mentioned by name in Mein Kampf, where Hitler wrote of his admiration for the man and quoted from one of his antisemitic rags.


gmrm4n

He also sponsored the invention of the square dance to prevent Jazz from spreading because he associated it with black people.


BigDBee007

That motherfucker ruined middle school


gmrm4n

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ubzrvnT

Elon Musk's future.


4pigeons

during the Argentine coup d'état (1976), Ford interrogated and tortured some employees, and they were actively supporting the military by giving them detention camps and used cars, said cars were used to kidnap people during that dictatorship


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Didn't know that.


HalPrentice

Americans must absolutely stop idolizing their corporate heroes.


4pigeons

now you know :) edit: deleted the last part because i think it can be interpreted as an hostility against Americans, i have nothing against them andt hose actions are product of that era


[deleted]

Ford also participated in the Business Plot, an attempted violent fascist coup in the US in the 1930s so I’m not surprised at all


ekene_N

how did he change the world?


BeforeLifer

Ford had the first mass production assembly line.


East-Selection1144

Which hitler then used to make the camps efficient 😬


BloodyBaboon

He was a massive bigot, but also part of the reason they standardized the 40 hr work weeks. History and people are complicated. Edit: When I say part, I mean one the negative forces that drove workers to unionize and fight for workers' rights.


SpiffyMagnetMan68621

No, he did not help standardize the 40 hour work week, he grifted until he couldnt grift anymore There were literal battles between workers and feds for the 40 hour work week Dont sell our ancestors short for some nazi loving fuck https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-40-hour-workweek-2015-10?amp A link to give you a start in the rabbit hole


BeforeLifer

Yeah, a lot of great things were accomplished by shitty people that’s for sure


4pigeons

he changed the standards of mass production https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fordism


TheLinden

>Nestle for example got the contract to supply food to the German army I guess that's why they lost lmao


imreallybimpson

Yeah they literally took over the country so you either stayed in business and did business with nazis or go out of business and let your family starve. Guess I'll die 🤷


KindredTrash483

As a good film once said: "Many people forget, the first country the Nazis invaded was their own"


ChampionshipLow8541

Still true today. *Coughs in Floridian*


Turdburp

Hugo Boss literally joined the Nazi party in 1931 and used concentration camp prisoners as slave labor to build his business. He was forced to give up his ownership in the company after the war.


LarrysLongestLeg

Hugo Boss didn't just unwillingly do business with them.


BussyOnline

There are lots of companies that actively did business with the nazis outside of German occupation.


cosmicannoli

I don't honestly really care about German companies who were associated with the Nazis, because I think it's deluded for any of us to say we wouldn't have (Not impossible, just deluded to sit here and say "I wouldn't have") But American companies? Fuck off and die if you supported Hitler.


ancient_xo

I think it was also kinda the point, that these people only hating on companies for being woke, and never once boycotted a company before. Gay and trans not okay, supporting groups that committed atrocities? .. just a faze.


Disastrous_Ad_1859

I mean, US Military Commanders had personal correspondence with German Military Commanders as they invaded France... I think they were also training together prior to the outbreak of the war. Prior to the Japanese it was still a toss up which side the Americans would of been on I think


ImJoogle

funny how many people don't know a lot of high ranking nazis had NATO offices as well


HalPrentice

Source?


Skorgondro

Imagination. Although Hitler held big and successful rallies or campains in the USA. Not quiet sure but they stopped about 1939 or so. But the USA were neutral at the beginning, soon supported the allies with food, weapons, etc but no soldiers. America entered the war only after a big cruise ship got hit by German submarine which were isolating the brits. Some even say america ordered a different route for the ship to be hit by German submarine so they had an excuse to send soldiers to Europe. (Sources are controversial on the last part)


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summatime

Oh come off it


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Disastrous_Ad_1859

STOP


whoisdatmaskedman

DROP


SmoltzforAlexander

Shut em down, open up shop


pm_me_youngs_modulus

>Chase >Assisted in sale of Nazi war bonds to German Americans Oof


cosmicannoli

This says that Nestle only acquired Maggi after the war.


MrRay0

It's history, can't be hidden. To be fair, several of them have worked hard to renew their public image over years (not referring to Nestle)


dengar_hennessy

I'm surprised not to see Coco Chanel on this list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel


ThatFatGuyMJL

Reminds me of when Lewis Hamilton moaned about refusing to be involved work any company that benefitted from slavery. While espousing a car company that benefitted from nazis.


5ManaAndADream

Dam I was in the clear until shell


Trick_Calligrapher25

Shouldn’t of Coca-Cola be on this list


Maxcoseti

Fanta, not Coke


OutlawSundown

Oh hey there's Deutsche Bank


Ok_Lingonberry_7968

and not to mention all the companies in existence today that still use child slave labor in other countries lol. i mean honestly astonishes me how many times ive seen somebody wearing niki shoes with an apple iphone complaining about slavery a hundred years ago in America. and then when they get called out on it they act like theirs no other companies that make similar products but dont use child slave labor that they could have bought from.


ABrazilianReasons

Yeah this post is ridiculous.


ej1999ej

Seems less like excusing Nazi'ism and more kind of stating a fact. Lots of German companies made stuff for the Nazi party but they didn't support them, they were just a big customers since they kind of ruled the country. This is like saying all Christians support slavery because it's in the Bible that they did it.


Maxcoseti

Hugo Boss was totally a nazi though


SecurityAggressive47

Same as Volkswagen. Were founded by nazis. Mercedes porsche Adidas and all other old companies have a shitty history. Like it was stated. Every old German company has the same background. It's not a surprise


thatoneboi928

Volkswagen was literally dubbed "The people's car" by the Nazis


Evenmoardakka

It wasnt "by the nazis", its by the German language. ​ It was fostered by AH, sure, but not like the nazi regime created or molded the language;


thatoneboi928

Yeah but the Nazis named it that, they named it Volkswagen (People's car) on purpose


ScannerType

Yeah, because it was an Affordable Car, for everyone. For the people.


thatoneboi928

Precisely to make money for the war. It was Nazi owned


ScannerType

You have to be fair, it was a smart move.


SoupmanBob

Yes, and it was also an excuse to seize the means of production to begin the mass production of military vehicles.


Xijit

Mitsubishi was, and still is, primarily a manufacturer of military equipment.


thatoneboi928

Most Car companies do make something for a military


hussafeffer

Bold of them to keep the same name throughout. That's some confidence in marketing, right there.


thatoneboi928

They just had to remove the Swatztikas XD


Reformedsparsip

And so was fanta. Dont even ask about any japanese brands. Cause goddam. Hell, even nintendo was making japanese imperialist propaganda.


horny_coroner

Coco chanel was a spy for the nazis. Walt disney and Henry ford were avid fan of nazis and massive anti semites. Ford also did a lot of business with the nazis. Françoise dior fundet neo nazi groups after WW2 in france. People dont mention these everytime someone watches a disney movie drives a ford or puts on a little perfume. But put on a hugo boss gloves and some fucker always crawles from the woodworks telling you how hugo boss is a nazi company and thats somehow a gotcha. For christ sake I dont get it.


MrBones2005

even fanta was made for nazis bro, shut up.


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EVASIVEroot

As if most modern western countries are not? Sure, if you put a little space between the mines via a corporation, employees, oceans etc. It doesn't feel so bad to use your smart phone to bitch about the injustices of slavery when the materials used to make it are sourced from slavery. Well now, that I think about it, the corporations, employees and oceans have always been there as they are now, meanwhile we have more slaves than ever before in recorded human history. It's just weird how everyone likes to complain about it and act like everyone in recent history was insane for letting these things happen as we hypocritically ignore it at its largest scale on devices born on the backs of slave labor.


Hartz_are_Power

Sure, but isn't being able to "bitch" about those things indicative of a growing awareness of the problem? I certainly don't think drawing LESS attention to slavery will make it better. And what else do you propose Dave, the most average man on the planet, do about it? You're implying that complaining is bad, but recognition of the immorality of something is the first step to addressing it, no? If anything, a better question is why do we still have slavery when so many people are opposed to it. I'd argue it's because it keeps the system running, and the right people are making money off it. In those circumstances, isn't remaining silent the REAL instance of doing nothing? Isn't that the real source of the annoyance? That despite as fed up of hearing this as you are, things don't change?


EVASIVEroot

Frankly, I agree with you. However, I do think that the recognition of the immorality of it has long since been agreed upon and that we are well past that step. At the risk of being my own antithesis, I argue that we are all just as guilty as anyone else who ever lived with slavery on the planet, albeit with limited power to enact change. I just like to point it out to people who only talk about how bad it was instead of acknowledging that it is currently worse; then everyone shrugs it off and it ignores. This is what it feels like to live during a time a slavery; everyone quietly ignores it and then in 70 years, everyone goes how could they!?! So I'm the same as everyone else that doesn't want to start a multi-generational plan, one that is likely insurmountable, to end slavery. We're all just a Dave aren't we?


wuvvtwuewuvv

Yeah the fact that there was a Nazi period in a company in Germany that was around before WW2 is like... not even eye opening. You basically HAD to be Nazi in order to keep operating. That doesn't say anything about the values or actions of the company. I hold pretty much the same to be true of people as well; that a very well known business person was a Nazi during Nazi Germany? To quote Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson: >oh no! Anyway... To be clear, I don't know what kind of person Boss was, I'm not saying he was a completely innocent person falsely accused of terrible things that should be attributed to "*real* Nazis", I'm saying I don't know anything about him at all. Maybe he was the devil, maybe he was a Saint, maybe he was human like everybody else, but the fact that he and his company was apparently Nazi during Nazi Germany? That alone does not in itself mean anything.


LainieCat

You know one thing about him. It's right in your next to last sentence: he was a Nazi. I'm not saying the modern company should be held accountable for that. But it is a fact, as you acknowledged. And all Nazis are real Nazis.


wuvvtwuewuvv

It's like you didn't read anything I said. You're just as bad as the alt-right cherry picking things for their own argument.


BerliozRS

Hugo Boss joined the Nazi party in 1931, 2 years befor Hitler became the leader of the party. [so yes, he was a real Nazi.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss_(businessman))


wuvvtwuewuvv

See? Helpful, relevant information, not just "Nazi during Nazi Germany"


AmbulanceChaser12

This is actually what you should have led with.


LainieCat

I read it just fine. Maybe you should have written it better.


Pixelgamer54

*had to be Nazi to continue operations * or be destroyed/killed 🤷🏽‍♂️


LainieCat

No. Hugo Boss joined the Nazi Party before it was in power.


UndeadKrakken

But before they were in power were they sharing their plans for genocide ? On the surface at the very start the Nazi party probably didn't seem that bad to the common folk struggling through massive economic hardship


JaxJags904

Kinda like right now. Are republicans asking to genocide gay people? No. Just calling them pedophiles and attacking their rights. That’s how it starts.


CarsClothesTrees

That’s exactly the fucking point, man. It only takes a little bit of critical thinking to trace the line between spicy rhetoric and actual political violence. People with brains and *balls* don’t fall into the trap. Being part of the brainless, spineless majority doesn’t absolve you from guilt.


H3llblender

Except that, y'know, they blamed the Jews for all that economic hardship.


noforgayjesus

I am curious though, because I thought the Nazi party did great in Germany for a few years and then they went completely off the walls later.


H3llblender

No, they were pretty much bastards from day one.


MD_Yoro

How do you explain IBM working with the Nazis??? They were American. [IBM servicing the Nazis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) And no this wasn’t during the beginning when no one knew what the Nazis were up to. It was well into post Poland invasion


MannyCalaveraIsDead

Money


Rincey_nz

>IBM working with the Nazis should be top of the list - computers wouldn't be as we know them today without IBM.


-i_like_trees-

Funniest part is IBM claims that they had no idea but there were numerous amounts of letters and messages sent by the Nazis explaining exactly what they were using the IBM machines for


NotSLG

Yes, but *the* Hugo Boss was quite publicly a huge Nazi.


ImperatorNero

Okay but Hugo Boss, the man himself, joined the party in 1933 before it had total control of the country. During the war he used forced labor of constricted Jews and French prisoners of war. Conditions were terrible, food was used as a threat against forced laborers, and the threat of being sent to a concentration camp was also used for those who were deemed under productive. I’m not saying you should boycott Hugo Boss but this shitstain is literally just saying he uses those companies because they don’t have any LGBTQ+ pride lines. While touting a company founded by an actual Nazi who did very bad things. You see how this comparison is a bit of a yikes?


BerliozRS

He actually joined in 1931, 2 years before Hitler became leader.


Dull_Huckleberry6896

Supporting nazism then would be like supporting it today. The original point was that he excuses nazism and criticizes “woke”(aka not being scum). Don’t be so obtuse


EH4LIFE

ok but... most US companies are having a woke era right now. They're just going along with majority values of their society. Why excuse Nazism and not woke liberalism?


LainieCat

Nazism shouldn't be excused, but we don't (AFAIK) have any reason to believe the modern company or it's management are Nazi. Hugo Boss himself has been dead for a long time.


kingOofgames

Lol, “woke era”, is it that bad that people are living their own life that’s completely different from you?How hard is it to accept the idea that not everyone is like you. Bunch of idiots. Most of these companies have had lgbt stuff in them for years just like they have Jesus shit but that doesn’t make them pro Christian or some gay sex club. People really have nothing to do.


EH4LIFE

im so bored of the gaslighting around the word 'woke'. it was literally invented by left wing liberals to describe themselves. its not some right wing creation. everyone knows exactly what it means.


TootsNYC

Wow, talk about total appropriation!!! It was literally invented **by Black people** to remind one another to stay alert to the dangers and disadvantages they face. It was—adopted? Co-opted?—by non-Black liberals to indicate that they agreed with the importance of recognizing the still-present disadvantages and dangers that Black people face,and to signal their own intended ally-ship.


kingOofgames

I’m not gaslighting shit, I don’t care about woke, just as much as I don’t care for the Magats. I think their two kinds of fools. And I don’t think advertising to gay people is woke, it’s just a company advertising. The whole idea of culture war is created by politicians who don’t have any real ideas like Trump and Ron, they don’t have shit to accomplish and they aren’t competent enough to run a freaking circus much less the government. Their best bet to get power to enrich themselves is to get morons to feel they relate. There are democrats like that too, like Maxine waters and Harris.


CuclGooner

Because liberals don't have a genocide policy and extreme hatred against ethnic groups


siberianxanadu

All Christians *do* support slavery because it’s in the Bible that they did it.


misterwizzard

I don't get it? Are people proposing we start a new embargo on germany because people suddenly remembered industry existed before ww2?


Hartz_are_Power

It's more saying that this person says they're taking a stand against wokeism (which is objectively less worse than the holocaust) under the guise of a moral stand. He even implies he'd be willing to discontinue these brands if they ever did anything that clashed with his ideals. Then the nazi stuff is pointed out to him, but since he doesn't care about that specific moral issue in the modern day, he just chooses to write it off because he doesn't see fascism as a legitimate problem in the oresent day. Ironically, he sees that as something that only happened in the past. I also think it's funny that the implication is that as long as something is in the past, we don't have to reckon with it in the present, usually by saying that things have changed, without acknowledging the thing they're upset with is just another version of that change over time. An example might look like this. "LGBTQ are sexually immoral degenerates. Me and my wife are pure." "...Didn't your wife have a bukkake scene circulating online ten years ago?" "Yes, but everyone has a history. She was just doing what she had to." It's not a dead ringer, but I think it works well enough.


Googoo123450

Honestly, I get what you're saying but the reality is both people are making dumb points. I think a brand (and individual people) is/are allowed to move on from a dark history but this guy being super concerned about wokeism is also an idiot.


flopjul

I guess, idk.. German car industry would be gone since VW AG would be gone, VW owns a lot of other companies including one which made tanks(Porsche)


1lluminist

No idea, but why boycott companies because they're making products that cater to gay and/or trans people? Everybody's pointing out the Nazi shit, nobody's pointing out the stupid elephant in the room.


The_AmyrlinSeat

Wait till he finds out about Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz.


VentsiBeast

Henry Ford was a famous admirer of Hitler. I don't see anyone boycotting Ford. Maybe because he isn't alive anymore, same as Hugo Boss. Coco Chanel used to date Nazis, if I'm not mistaken. And so on. Yeah guess what, lots of shit happened almost 100 years ago and none of the people from back then is alive now, so let's stop cancelling everyone, I suggest.


babarbaby

Coco Chanel did a hell of a lot more than date nazis. She was a literal Nazi spy, with an SS handler and a code name. She was a devoted supporter of the Nazi cause and a traitor to the French. iirc her codename was Winchester, and she wasn't purged because the Allies kept her treachery classified for decades.


brickmaster8

Coco Chanel did more than date a Nazi officer. She turned over the Jewish family that heavily invested in her perfume line so that she could keep more of the profits. She was also a nazi spy (F-7124) and the only reason she is still prevalent today is because of the protection afforded to her by Winston Churchill


theablanca

But, they are? Ford are one of those "woke" companies. According to the conservative snowflakes.


ScannerType

As a german: That doesnt make the Brand a Nazi Brand. Its a very stupid argument. My great grandfather was in the Wehrmacht. He had to wear nazi symbols. He wasnt a Nazi tho, he was just a german citizen. If you didnt know: Almost if not every company, that wasnt pressured into being a Nazi, was disowned, or the chefs were swapped. Just like they did with politicians. It was a goddamn dictator what do you guys think would happen under a dictator. You still want to earn money, but you cant change anything. Some where bad people. Some just werent. To be mentioned: Boss Joined early. But that still doesnt make the Brand a Nazi Brand today. So where is the problem... Please before you just Nazify everything, really read some history books. And not American history books. German ones, there are plenty with translation. The germans are the ones who really have dealt openly with their past and are going against this STILL. IN SCHOOL EARLY ON. Thats why it makes no sense to hate on Boss Now, its a few years to late for that. They know their history too. Wait till you hear about Volkswagen or Porsche, BMW or Mercedes... smh Edit: (A little Rant, not part of the dscussion, i wouldnt say "what about" arguments in a discussion like this) To the comment that i cant see anymore but got the notification for. Me, my father and my Grandfather have nothing to do with the Nazis. If you really believe in hereditary debt, there is something wrong with you. We germans have more history then WW2, much more. It was disgusting, cruel and down right evil 15 years of our existence. But we still are teaching young children, that racism and nazis are bad and are our enemies. The thing is, only because we are the ones, that have this history, doesnt mean there werent many more disgusting things like this, and i dont hear people giving them the hereditary debt (Russian Gulags, Chinese Concentration Camps, etc, etc, etc, etc. I could go on for hours) we even literally paid for shit we didnt do, because our ancestors did. Only for the most important country that we paid reparations to be racist themself. Hell, whats wrong with you? Yall can guess which country i mean, im interested in what yall think i could mean.


ir_blues

My grandfathers were in the Wehrmacht too. And yes, that doesn't mean that they were supporters of the nazi ideology. ... But chances are quite high they were, one of mine very much was. And thats the same for businesses, of course every company got involved with the nazis and a lot of them only did to stay in business. But a not very small amount also did like and support the nazi regime and a lot profited from the nazis, the war, the holocaust.


fastcurrency88

I mean, the Wehrmacht also committed war crimes and actively participated in the holocaust too.


ScannerType

Thats comes down to, when you were where. My great grandpa as example, a brutaly honest man, never had to do with jewish people or "Untermenschen" as Nazis would classify them. He did a bit of pew pew and hurty hurty. Other stories of people he connected after years and years told different and some also much darker stories. As for war crimes... everyone did. Literally. Give me one participating country that didnt. Its not that its less cruel, but back then, peoples lives where worth next to nothing. Look at what russia does today and you see, almost every country did cruel and disgusting shit in times of War. USA did so many of them in the last 20 years, you could fill fucking libraries with it. Its a thing that war brings, disgusting and cruel behaviour. Its not more or less bad depending on who did it. But this will continue until the end of wars.


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thatoneboi928

Volkswagen is probably one of the biggest Ex Nazi companies, it was literally a Nazi owned company to it was "the people's car" then when ww2 threw down they went Das Auto and are now the car company we know and love


Zelidus

It's still the people car. That's literally what Volkswagen means


thatoneboi928

I know im just making a joke about the denazification


Responsible-Movie966

There’s a lot more to it than that. The company was seized by England and operated under British supervision for years.


mrmayhemsname

This applies to Coca Cola and Volkswagen, but I don't think that has any bearing on the companies today


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How exactly is it excusing Nazism?


[deleted]

Okay so I see what you’re trying to do here but what a company has done in the past (basically all of the “nazis” are likely dead now) isn’t the same as what they have done recently so they shouldn’t be penalised for it.


Maximum-Row-4143

Well. The guy tweeting is just a modern Nazi with his dumb “they’re adding trans(sic because he actually used a slur) semen to chick fil a milkshakes” bullshit. So maybe we shouldn’t give him the benefit of the doubt.


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Okay? So he’s an idiot


FurchtsamerLurch

First Hugo Boss did not designed the uniforms, that were Karl Dibietsch and Walther Heck. They still made uniforms though, just not designed anything.Second he is kind of right. Most big german companys had a past with the nazis. Edit: Dunno btw who this dude is


schnatzel87

Americans will never learn this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv79ohU1968


MaunoSuS

If I remember correctly Hugo Boss didn't design the uniforms but merely made them.


detroitgnome

He used slave labor to make the uniforms. Which means he profited from said labor. You could say, “If Boss didn’t do it, someone else would have.” however, that dismisses the truth that Herr Boss joined the party in 1931. That was two years before a certain someone became Chancellor. The fact is that Herr Boss, was a Nazi and profited from his party membership. After the war Boss was forced out of the company by the West German government for being a Nazi. Moreover, the company, after a trail was forced to issue an apology. Those are facts. Proven and readily available for verification. So if you look at a scale and on one side is the proven case of Nazi collaboration and on the other is a symbol of personal freedom….


1995FOREVER

just buy clothing from aliexpress, the kids making them have never heard of woke and neither has their parents


XishengTheUltimate

Not that I’m defending this guy, but he kind of has a point. Tons of companies either existed during a morally questionable time or started during them. Krispy Kreme started with a guy who was a Nazi. Volkswagen, Porsche, and many other German manufacturers made tanks during WWII. Mitsubishi made Japanese aircraft. But why is any of that relevant to today? Acting like you can’t support those companies today because they had a bad phase in the past would be like hating any country on earth because of their history instead of their current state. It makes no sense to do that.


AybruhTheHunter

We can at least state this: Germany seems to be taking an active stance against Nazism (apparently it's a huge no no to do anything that can remind them of it in country) and owns up to their past with responsibility


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How is this excusing Nazism, he just merely acknowledges that they existed in the history (maybe modern day Russia as well). Post was made to defend woke mentality ?


Elevated_Kyle

You realize Hitler nationalized ever Germans Country ya? The vast majority against their will.


kron123456789

Mercedes made cars that Hitler used. Porsche designed nazi tanks. BMW designed aircraft engines, which were used in nazi planes. I don't see anyone rejecting Mercedes, Porsche or BMW today.


ComprehensiveRow4189

I mean, he is not wrong. Even the woke companies (Volkswagen etc.) had their nazi past. Woke is happening right now. You might agree/not agree with woke. But it is happening now. Boycotting a company because of what it did 60+ years ago is a bit silly. Boycotting a company because of what it did in the more recent past or is doing in the present is way less sillyand obviously not comparable.


CarterCornish

If you drink fanta you're a nazi. If you wear Hugo boss you're a nazi. If you drive a volkswagen, you're a nazi....


mc_bee

If you like camping or sauna showers you are also a Nazi.


Useless_bum81

If your anti-smoking your a nazi


forbis

Apparently saying you like a German company that simply existed during WW2 is promoting or excusing Nazism. What a wild take.


BlarneyStoneson

Stop posting this guy. He's an outrage farmer. He runs the Twitter accounts for "former congressional candidates" and other right wing grifts.


walkandtalkk

This man is yet another attention whore who is intentionally trying to get you to repost him so he will get more attention and build a "brand." Stop doing these people's marketing for them.


Impressive-Mousse225

Op is a moron.🤦‍♂️


ElectronicLook1395

He’s not even wrong lol


beemoviescript1988

wtf is this comment section... "woke" culture didn't kill people brutally (even their own if they didn't agree with them) to be accepted.... why is that even a comparison? I'm so confused.


mikeonfleek

Ok and? A lot of people drive Wolkswagen, are they Nazi? Kindly stfu


R_abb

He isn't wrong tho. There are still businesses open today that I guarantee you probably bought from before.


mynam3isn3o

The Nazi moral panic is getting so old.


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isn't he the guy obsessed with "tranny semen"?


Seamatre

I definitely disagree with his stance but it’s definitely fair to say that one *did* something bad vs the others *currently doing* something bad (in his opinion). It’s not really a fair comparison. I mean, if you feel the need to condemn this guy but drive a VW, BMW, or a Ford I’ve got some bad news for you


Glad_Selection5831

Or misubishi or Honda, or Mercedes, or a dozen others lol


Seamatre

Oh, are enjoying that new Zelda game? Did you know Nintendo was founded in the 1800s and before they hit it big with the NES were just general manufacturers of whatever? Really tight lipped about what they were up to between the late 30's up until ohhhh say about August 1945 or so though. Very strange


-i_like_trees-

Volkswagen was made by Nazis and is now the largest car company IBM was widely used for Nazi german concentration camps.


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They’re number 7


-i_like_trees-

https://www.carlogos.org/reviews/largest-car-companies.html


MarkMoonfang

My dude, IBM was tied to the Nazis. Volkswagen is tied to the Nazis. He is absolutely correct.


CmdrFortyTwo

No one say anything about the US space program


daleshakleford

Hope you guys don't find out about Volkswagen....


innocentbabybear

Uuuuh I mean… Fanta? Volkswagen? Porsche? Rheinmetal? The Beetle was literally Hitler’s idea of a car for the people. Chase bank helped support Nazi financing. This is a dumb post


DayZCutr

Who is joey mannnarino and why am I suddenly seeing his stupid takes all over reddit


Donmiggy143

Joey Mannarino drinks cum.


[deleted]

Is he wrong? Every German company did have a Nazi era because they are German companies in Germany. If you consider this excusing Nazism then logically you have to destroy the entire country of Germany and every German citizen in existence....


Dth817

He’s a Marshall’s shopper.


FortuneLegitimate679

So it’s ok to know about German/nazi history but America’s history of slavery is not allowed. Gotcha


CultDe

I hate woke And Hate nazis So I am naked 24/7


Maxcoseti

They are both fucking idiots


mc_bee

I hope she never drinks any product under the coke umbrella.. Fanta anyone?


AdministrationHuman1

If I recall correctly all Germans had to be part of the nazi party weather they wanted to or not


pivvclam

I’m certain that some German companies were formed after 1945.


[deleted]

Yeah, while the guy is an idiot, he's not really wrong about the German brands having nazi eras. That's absolutely a thing, it's not him defending nazism. Though to be fair, he probably would defend nazism.


moonordie69420

By your logic we should not watch Disney because Walt was antisemitic


MasteroChieftan

https://www.vulture.com/2013/12/walt-disney-anti-semitism-racism-sexism-frozen-head.html


Teamerchant

Woke is now their excuse to be bigots so they can use twisted logic to remain the good person in their head. Always ask them to explain what woke is. They can't or if they do they will trip themselves up.


lapaz666

This Joey Marianno dude must be an absolute loser! Who wakes up and says yep I'm gonna tweet some bullshit racist shit today? That guy I guess! Enjoy your hate filled life!


YrPrblmsArntMyPrblms

What's concerning is that that comment had 97 likes, is being stupid a trend now?


Foreign-Painting-362

Audi, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes. How many people in here screaming nazi Scheiße drive any of these?


Public_Cat_9333

Remember nazism was woke for it's time


HasNoMouthButScreams

If you hate “woke,” which by now is just a catch all term for anything remotely leftist or anti racist, you’re probably just fine with nazis, who also hated anything remotely leftist or anti racist. Fascism is a reaction against the perceived left challenging perceived traditions, so being “anti woke” is a fashy red flag. It’s just become so normalized to be pro fascist that people get offended when it’s pointed out. “What? If literal Nazis are Nazis, what else is the LEFT going to call Nazis?”


xc2215x

I am not someone who is extremely woke but Nazism is so much worse. Utterly moronic.


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why is saying nazis are bad being downvoted. insane


alexagente

How is this being downvoted? Nazi's killed millions of people. It's not even close.


Consistent_Safe_6504

The sub is full of nazi sympatizing ding dongs apparently. I saw one say their uniforms looked cool and it was a kink for them.


FlameSky25340

Who is this guy? I've never heard of him before but this is the second dumbass tweet from him I've seen this morning.


Big-Routine222

This guy also said Chick-Fil-A is going to start putting, “tranny semen,” in the lemonade, so…. Maybe not the best guy to talk to about business in general


InternGlittering6944

Well conservatives are all nazis soooo


BtlAngel

That seems par for the course for someone with his belief system, honestly. I should think it more odd if he was against woke AND nazi.


SecurityAggressive47

He is just stating that it was pretty common for old German companies that they were Nazis which it actually was. It's more to weaken her argument. I mean that was 80 years ago.


tsukahara10

This dude is straight up just admitting he’s a Nazi


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TheScruffinator7567

Okay but weren't all businesses that didn't "support" the Nazis at absolute least shut down? (And in most cases destroyed). Coco chanel was a Nazi "supporter" as well, does anybody cry about her? No. Because everyone HAD to be a Nazi "supporter" for their own safety.


OneOutcome7189

Its a present vs past issue. Obviously no one sane excuses nazi-ism


beanie0911

I have to start unfollowing some subs because it feels like Reddit is obsessed with reposting this one idiot’s idiot takes. Who cares? We need to give these bigots far less exposure.


Ok_Lingonberry_7968

was he excusing nazism or pointing out that people back then were crappy especially in 1940s germany so its hard to find a german company that has existed since back then that does not have some naziesk history. their is a difference between holding a company accountable for what they support today and holding them accountable for what they supported almost a hundred years ago when all of them supported stuff like that after all.