Hugo Boss - Tailor to the Third Reich Documentary

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[@wrecktitudemedia6514]

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!

[@0ldb1ll]

​@@wrecktitudemedia6514 But everyone knows that Germany was entirely innocent and that its people were only obeying orders.

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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...

[@mdubz101]

Wow that’s wild.

[@kimberlychristofferson5857]

😮😮😮😮

[@Jean-vr7vj]

Did you keep the knife after finding out all that?

[@rainblaze.]

@@Jean-vr7vj Keep it? He framed it lol

[@robertmiller2173]

Probably the same knife etc made its way to New Zealand.

[@bravosierra2447]

WIth Nazi uniforms being so distinctive and customized this is a fascinating insight about the person behind it all. Great work again Peoples Profile.

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

No wonder the uniforms were so stylish

[@ziblot1235]

Oh no. Those uniforms must have made them evil!

[@rainervolker4279]

Boss had nothing to do with the design and was just one of many companies that produced military cloths. The doc is missleading.

[@ezkibela]

​​@@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

[@rainervolker4279]

@@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.

[@millertime-lf8th]

Krupp Family would be a great topic for a later videos! Really enjoy these! Thank you!

[@myunknownland9272]

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.

[@marceladvorakova5012]

Ale hog boss to dělal rád a rád se se se svým jménem pak chlubil, něco jako coco Chanel- nacistická bitsch!

[@myunknownland9272]

@@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.

[@marceladvorakova5012]

@@myunknownland9272 tak bohužel, teď to není na překladač, tak nevím co píšete, rozumím Jen česky, rusky, německy ,

[@marceladvorakova5012]

@@myunknownland9272 ?, Deutsh, rus Oder czech,

[@marceladvorakova5012]

@@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

[@MattyD315apologetics]

As an American who has never left the states.. I live for these types of docs!

[@paulnoorbergen3514]

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

[@Cavethug]

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.

[@justmyster1976]

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.

[@upchuck6969f]

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[@lazarorivera3384]

@@justmyster1976wow nazi uniforms are fashionable. That is what he referring. Just fashion.

[@mockba5676]

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.

[@JollyJ3rk]

​@@justmyster1976who coined the term "nazi"? 🤔🤔. Pretty sure they were national socialists and never referred to themselves as "nazis"

[@NZotyoka81]

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.

[@asullivan4047]

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.

[@AndyJarman]

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!

[@sithvsjedi9696]

It's great to see a documentary on the Nazi's uniforms. Keep up the good work 👍🏼

[@Nerino666]

old news if history was mandatory in class.... so I would not be surprised if history repeats.... AGAIN!

[@45jacky77]

Oh man i should've expected this when i told my nieces why the nazis were so fashionable.

[@roystonboodoo7525]

I welcome the all-round good narration on this channel, Thank-you

[@cw4608]

They know how to keep the musical score muted so it doesn’t interfere with the narration.

[@roystonboodoo7525]

@CW It's one of the few channels that are not imposing nor distracting.

[@Bosquecito_de_Laureles]

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.

[@retromoden]

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...

[@kikogarcia4096]

its not the same being force to do something or having a passion for it, like the SS, nit the same at all

[@martyzielinski1442]

Agreed totally. My own thought processes often follow yours.

[@helenachase5627]

We'll probably find out, looks like civil war in our future

[@НаталияКормщикова-з4г]

I think you're right.

[@michaeltroster9059]

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.

[@AndyJarman]

Watch again. To begin with they were paid, only later were they enslaved.

[@rcajavus8141]

@@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

[@rcajavus8141]

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

[@lacivmvominj]

Não muito diferente do que faziam os Soviéticos nos gulags etc.

[@rdsc.455]

Both sides had done this. Britishers and Japanese were doing the same in their colonies in Asia.

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

Thanks. Kind of curious about Ferdinand Porsche.

[@svx94]

A very fair and factual based documentary. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheEdudo]

indeed, a rarity nowadays

[@The_Bigot]

Yeah but they’re also making a lot of excuses and downplaying Boss’ involvement.

[@TheEdudo]

@@The_Bigot maybe what you knew wasn´t all of it

[@casebarreoltt5990]

@@TheEdudo derp

[@firsttimeisawjupiter1031]

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

[@mojewjewjew4420]

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.

[@paulstewart6293]

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.

[@annad8636]

You would have been a defendant in the Nuremberg trials.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@annad8636 Or you would be with that attitute to slander strangers.

[@annad8636]

@@mojewjewjew4420 I don’t put it past myself or any other human

[@a.salmon8193]

I learn so much from this channel. Much appreciated.

[@dr.hooshangheshmat8736]

Me too.

[@3vimages471]

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.

[@nightwish1000]

Coz you know what quality means.

[@teekue]

@@nightwish1000 Boss clothing is not good quality LOL

[@Србомбоница86]

​@@teekueit's pretty good

[@Tomatohater64]

Yet another fascinating biography - well-presented on a controversial figure. Superbly done.

[@danielb7253]

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.

[@Britbikerss]

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 ~

[@Dr.Strangmeme]

Say what you will about the Nazis, but those SOBs had the best uniforms.

[@sicilianotoronto]

hahaha yup!

[@mavjimbo]

And don't get me started about the flags

[@brittnaycattaneo6015]

​@@mavjimbo😅😅😅

[@lizzieb.4160]

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.

[@craftsman40]

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.

[@sca696]

they ate already made, just hit up utube, I'd send them but it takes time

[@colinb5415]

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.

[@semiramisrosarot]

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.

[@katrinweigel3796]

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.

[@AndyJarman]

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.

[@blumusik9572]

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.

[@johngault4790]

This channel has quickly become my favorite keep up the good work! 👍 may I suggest one of my favorite presidents Calvin Coolidge

[@ziblot1235]

Old "Cal" was unfairly blamed for the depression. I think he was a good pres.

[@drTERRRORRR]

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.

[@intercommerce]

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!

[@joshualeclair9729]

That sounds like a good story right there

[@iandawe948]

Im sure all those millions the scum murdered might disagree with you.

[@missionslos8856]

Dassler not Daschler

[@danieleacquavera4107]

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... 😉

[@simonh6371]

@@joshualeclair9729 There are a couple of good documentaries about the history of Adidas here on yt but only in German.

[@phantomopera5525]

Saying he was not as bad as other businessmen at the time is not saying much, considering how low the bar was...

[@kevinwong7254]

Alright time to fall asleep to this informative and relaxing video

[@username2966]

This is, by far, the best documentary channel on YT. Great work 👏

[@janetstander764]

On sick leave this whole week....catching up on some great documentaries. LOVE this channel.

[@justonemori]

When I say "Hugo Boss made SS uniforms" at the mall people look at me weird.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

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....

[@arnodobler1096]

Just like other clothing factories

[@amblincork]

To suggest he may have been unaware who he was producing brownshirts for in the late 1920's is so absurd...LOL !!!

[@mr.horrorchild4094]

When I see people driving German cars I know they're antisemitic

[@lottalehm]

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.

[@mr.horrorchild4094]

@@lottalehm Unless you were alive at the time you hold no responsibility for what happened.

[@lottalehm]

​@@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?

[@catgladwell5684]

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?

[@SmilusMusic]

I enjoyed this. I had no idea the brand was that old much less involved in making nazi uniforms. Well presented

[@charlotte-mg9wj]

They made the Nazi uniforms for Indiana jones and the last Crusade, the costume department decided they may as well ask the original manufacturer..

[@diarradunlap9337]

​@@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.* "

[@JohnInkiraine]

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?

[@michael-h8153]

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

[@artisaprimus6306]

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I'm sure generations of young people had no idea about Hugo Boss during the war years.

[@frankxaoz1286]

Boss is the best brand in fashion. Their quality was always better than the others. Prices were fair as well.

[@deborahklinlger8565]

I'm an American about 60 days ago I learned that my paternal great grandparents were both murdered during a Nazi sweep for workers in their factories in Warsaw Poland. 🎉 Both were deemed to feeble to work & were gassed. Their younger son & my paternal grandfather escaped & fled to the states. My dad was born here in NJ. No Jewish among my family & yet they were affected. Now I know why I have such an interest in WW2. It's very sad 😢🎉. Someday I may be able to visit Poland. Never been there. There are businesses today that benefited & had worked with the Nazis Chase Bank was one. Ty for the interseting docu.🎉😢

[@harryhanz1690]

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.

[@equaliser2265]

Not a problem in my eyes.

[@bc2578]

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?

[@simonh6371]

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.

[@kimclarke5018]

@@simonh6371 yes. But many people don’t know. There were many companies supplying the Nazis with various things.

[@simonh6371]

@@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.

[@doughart2720]

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.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your Documentaries on this topics are always so professional and well done. Very respectful with the subject at hand. Your channel is out of this world

[@SouthernArtist77]

If he didn’t know of working conditions it’s because he didn’t want to know.

[@Bigsky1991]

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".

[@rcajavus8141]

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.

[@HistoricGentleman]

@@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

[@tonyohalloran8817]

No finer looking uniformed military than the Germans of the WWII era. Fantastic.

[@redzmaja1805]

And Yugoslavia Kings Army in Fatherland

[@jessicamilestone4026]

Absolutely fascinating and enlightening. Thank you

[@charliebarton9878]

Top notch narrator.

[@randomramblings2325]

Thanks a profile piece on Ayn Rand would be great

[@PeopleProfiles]

Thank you!

[@godfreyberry1599]

If Hugo hadn't taken up the initiative someone else would've. Business is business, clothing doesn't kill anyone.

[@lukedaniels7750]

But using forced, unpaid labour does.

[@skog44]

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!?

[@j-ch8787]

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.

[@ulrikjensen6841]

What is this?...."orchestrate the regime's CRIMES...." 38.07ca. How can you ORCHESTRATE a crime? Could you PLEASE find another verbum!

[@theresalaux5655]

I learn a lot from your videos! Thank you very much😊

[@jakelamb4096]

Back in Black… no matter who you are where you’re from what you believe It’s still a great song!

[@Sumschmuck]

Hugo boss put the fashion in fascism

[@bobschenkel7921]

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.

[@katrinweigel3796]

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.

[@LizzyAnna]

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.

[@Drew791]

Now this is the kind of content we need.

[@patgalvez4563]

Dressed to kill

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

We don't. We have enough if this....we need to concentrate on the future....nobody la alive any more. And our children have enough problems to hate germans again. Enough

[@thebarberfrombrampton5404]

Fantastic narrative! You should do one about Coke and Fanta

[@mzjamm2]

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.

[@allangibson8494]

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.

[@mikakoivunen3456]

@@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.

[@I.I.5899]

This should make us think where, how and under what conditions our clothing is made! Those who revel in self-righteousness while standing in judgement of history should ask themselves if they are contributing and supporting wrongs in the present, even if indirectly. Also, many have condemned Coco Channel, for example, for associating with Nazis. Yet, a lot of what we consider fashionable, elegant and classy today, started with her. It is easy to condemn in retrospect and to think that we are not benefiting today from many wrongs of the past. As for this documentary, it is very objective and the events are explained within the context of that time - concepts that seems to be a rarity these days. Well done!

[@Useaname]

Correct. Look at how many drive German cars.

[@Kay-jg6tf]

@@Useaname We drive german cars because german engineering reign supreme. Operation paperclip didn't get them all i guess

[@daniakalaina]

Very good point

[@theintellectualsamurai7265]

I’d be interested to know if there are any allied uniform manufacturers that went onto make something stylish with all that experience?

[@indiosveritas]

Shockingly even-handed assessment of Hugo Boss and its involvement in the 3erd Reich . Some groups are not going to be happy.

[@jaldeborgh]

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.

[@alexgrayafc49]

This will be a banger 🔥

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Very Instructive, Bravo !

[@Crislovalova1]

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.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

Thank you hoch lebe Deutschland......and all the countries on earth. Stop hate

[@MertSu66]

But wat about 6 million??

[@marksky9724]

The Hugo brand has always been my favorite...but this just makes me more loyal❤

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

Stories like this a test up more hate. The war is over the man is dead...the famely are taylors....make peace....mein Gott

[@annmckelvie3375]

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!

[@mr.horrorchild4094]

What was his compassionate side?

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

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...

[@ulrikjensen6841]

The most unexpected followers of nazis were the nobility. And disappointing too, if you regard nazism as a plebeian lowclass movement of "Kellermenschen"

[@mr.horrorchild4094]

@@ulrikjensen6841 Sadly many do make distinctions between classes of people. This, of course, leads to discrimination and other cruelties visited upon those considered lesser.

[@TCELL24]

How is it alarming?

[@gigireitano2458]

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.

[@KJ-gc8oq]

Such as?

[@lancenguyen1223]

Your reading was wonderful to listen, thank you.

[@CharlesDickens111]

Well, this spoils Boss clothes for me. Now I'm going to drink some Fanta in my Volkswagen.

[@aldostefanini1392]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@onionkiss3451]

With addidas trainers?

[@geemeel4160]

Lol

[@justinbarion2269]

I always drink Coca Cola and use good American products like IBM computers and Ford cars.

[@Joseph-lr3lt]

I have never been interested in fashion until now

[@johnsononey]

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 .

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

What endless boring propaganda....no wonder we will.never have peace

[@johnsononey]

@@dagmarvandoren9364 The Luciferian /masonic brotherhood is in full force with the prop in 2023 . 90% of what we see and hear

[@daniakalaina]

I remember Woody’s. I also shopped there in 1989 when I moved to DC

[@cho7707]

So was it coincidence that Stallone & Co were wearing Boss in Rocky IV when he had to fight Ivan Drago? 😆😆

[@ron56pvi13]

Excellent documentary. I was wondering why certain fashion "experts" trash Hugo Boss clothing and now it's clear. I'll buy that suit anyway.

[@kadyokarding]

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.

[@meruthie]

why there are no radicals "canceling" this brand as they did with some Russian brands lately?

[@sagebiddi]

Nice work! You MUST do CoCo Channel now ...but great job on H.Boss . No matter how controversial it is arguably the best and most distinctive of all military uniforms of the time. It's refreshing to see a doc done on the man behind the tape and scissors especially when he went on keep being such a polarizing figure in the fashion world. I didn't know about his past until a few years ago after a friend noticed I had a few suits and items and even a cologne. I struggled with wearing them afterwards. Still seem to avoid them lol ...

[@cemiltatari6804]

its called Chanel..

[@sagebiddi]

@@cemiltatari6804ok camel tiara, whatever you say

[@andrewcohen8627]

Yes should have had company winded down he should have been held more accountable for his involvement

[@vaChiCago]

Please can you do one profile for Cecil John Rhodes 🙏🏽 you're going some good work much appreciated ...

[@lunes-1]

Hugo Boss also designed William&Harry Royal Uniforms

[@FINNIUSORION]

Still the best cologne there is.

[@Philipk65]

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.

[@alisoncarboni8366]

Could you do a video on empress Matilda? She was an amazing woman, a force to be reckoned with and a true she wolf! She has such an amazing life!

[@connierenna-xf9um]

VERY interesting, thanks. I think Mr. Boss was relatively humane and he was also punished for his beliefs and actions. I think justice was served.

[@donaldking5791]

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.

[@sca696]

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

[@worldtraveler930]

​@@sca696 Amen!!! 🤠👍

[@howardsportugal]

It is amazing to see how history can be distorted to fit almost any narrative. The whole video goes from truth to truth to distortion. The machine narration is a real trigger. Cheers to all.

[@joshthemediocre7824]

Wouldn't you call a life where you live in your own house but have to go to a job everyday to pay your taxes, forced labor? I guess they have figured out how to butter it up before it got to us. Great Doc on Mr. Boss.

[@simonh6371]

Do you get shot on the spot, or sent to the gas chambers, if you are too tired to do your job, or make a mistake at work?

[@bhgirlhello3819]

😳 will never buy HB again

[@khankrum1]

I personally will not purchase or wear Hugo Boss products, But that is my choice!

[@EvaDuartePeron]

Armani wasn't available until Armani entered the Argentine market, but the Peronists were never Facisist.

[@harryhanz1690]

You know, sometimes it's really hard to judge someone like Hugo Boss. I've spent my entire life, so far, living in a Western democratic nation. I honestly don't know what decisions

[@mememan2344]

I used to think the nazis were sick monsters but now I realize that is just American propaganda- what they did is no worse than what America did. Numberwise they might have an advantage, sure, but as far as how far they were willing to go to establish "living space" at the cost of other people? No difference. America is a "christian" nation so I think that's why they pretend Germany is oh so bad, since Christians owe all they are to the jews. You see, God came to them first, as the rest of us gentile swine just wasn't worthy. BUT, you see, Gods son, Jewish Jesus Christ died for us, and now, we can be a part too. You see, killing this one Jewish guy was evil, because we sinner swine just hate righteousness, but when the jews exterminated an entire people, because God told em too, that's righteous. And more than that, it was a GOOD thing, just as it was when America killed the evil God rejecting savages.

[@tomascastillo4676]

Almost every german company has their hands full of blood. Basf, VW, BMW, Bayer, Mercedes, Hugo BOSS...

[@RS-kl8hs]

Just makes me want to buy more Hugo Boss clothes 🤷‍♂️

[@carlplz00001]

😢

[@russellnolan9212]

As I've said, when people become powerful, they don't need to be good. "It's just business." Is the saying. Terrible business.

[@QuantumBlu9x]

Krupp family WW2.

[@santoshdnyanmote5170]

Let past be past....but make sure those jews who suffered directly or indirectly be adequately compensated

[@Phyllida-r7n]

Irrelevant.

[@janiceduke1205]

By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform was designed by SS members Karl Diebitsch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer) One of Boss' first big contracts was to supply brown shirts to the early Nazi party. By 1938, his firm was producing army uniforms, and eventually it manufactured the iconic all-black uniforms Waffen SS too - though it did NOT design the SS uniform. The German fashion firm Hugo Boss has apologized for its maltreatment of forced workers during World War II when it supplied the Nazis with uniforms.

[@PeopleProfiles]

Everything in your comment is in the video.

[@TheSmartLawyer]

Reparations would have shown a true and sincere apology. Words are hollow

[@teekue]

@@PeopleProfiles Yes, but every second comment says "well darn, he knew what style was, these uniforms did look great, didn't they???"

[@jjhh320]

Didn't know this. So THAT'S why their uniforms were always so sharp

[@mikenixon2401]

This is a very good documentary, profiling one who as caught up in an evil movement with the idea he was simply growing his business. I feel sorry for Boss and wonder what his private thoughts were during the war. It made me think of Schlinder's List.

[@454FatJack]

Buy Latin

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

And today there is nothing evil? In the world of internet. Etc. What rampant nonsense....no wonder. There is so much hate. Leave my country alone.....ckean up your own history

[@TheSmartLawyer]

He was no Oscar Schindler. Oscar grew into someone compassionate whereas Hugo was all about himself the entire time

[@AndyJarman]

​@@TheSmartLawyerso why reinstate the Polish girl? Why give her a pass? Why reinstate her? Nazism is very very similar to Marxism in its goals and methods. People cannot begin to imagine what totalitarianism is like. Psychopaths and sadists were given employment, that should give everyone cause to pause before condemnation.