russell brand, at his own peril, talks hugo boss' nazi past

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How seriously long ago was that (rhetorical question)? And is anyone working at, or running, Hugo Boss even old enough today to have been involved with the Nazis?

I truly love Brands comedy and have been to see him twice doing stand up but I saw him recently described as being like the kid who just went to his first day at university and has come home thinking he now knows more than everybody else, which I think it is a pretty good description.

I love his passion for helping those with addiction and I truly admire his efforts in getting this in the publics face etc but he shoes really remember that he is a comedian first and not a serious social commentator.

plus, was there anyone left in the world that didn't know about the Nazi-Boss link anyway?

It's a bit like an American pointing out that several British newspapers had sympathies with fascism in the 1930s, and trying to make a political point out of it.

Didn't Loreal have a link too and other big companies? I don't see the relevance today.

Companies like Thyssen-Krupp, Daimler-Benz, Ford, Volkswagen, (which was actually a Nazi government owned factory) BMW, GM Europe, (yes they actually existed back then) not to mention IG Farben, which exists now as Hoechst, BASF, and Bayer, (of Bayer Aspirin fame) I think in this day and age, this is all pretty much settled and irrelevant.

Be it children's games and toys to automobiles, clothing, groceries and medical care, the Nazis had sole control over almost every facet of existence in the lands they occupied.