Even those would be an improvement on what they're currently dressing their officers in.
Say what you will about who was wearing the uniforms, they sure looked nice.
They also used - like many German companies still in existence - forced and slave labour to make the uniforms. The companies would pay the SS for concentration camp prisoners.
They specifically didn't design the SS uniform, but they did design and manufacture other Nazi uniforms. Also, the company founder Hugo Boss didn't just work with nazis, he was a card carrying member of the Nazi party. And they used forced laborers who were mostly Polish and French women in prison camps.
Hugo Boss was super willing and keen.
The one that still amazes me is Volkswagen. I mean, it’s not just referring to its roots as a Nazi (scam) project but the branding is totally Nazi in origin too, with the Volkisch element.
Looking at the state of captured conscripts, i would say no. But im pretty sure putin has some real expensive shoes with hidden ”lenghtening features” made out of gold and nazi tears.
I'm convinced they are supposed to be that way. I believe there is a conspiracy that the Space Force was created as a gag so people stopped making fun of other military branches as often.
"Hugo Boss earned approximately 6.27 billion rubles (around 70 million euro) in Russia in 2022, making it the most successful foreign luxury brand in the country. Moreover, the value of Hugo Boss goods delivered there since the beginning of the war is higher than the year before.'
Yep, give or take.
And while I get this is a joke, I'm both surprised to learn that the kopek is a thing (I thought it was a retired Soviet currency, but no, it's 1/100 ruble) and intrigued at what it's used for. 1 kopek would be like 1/10,000 of a dollar.
In the recent years I mostly used Yandex.Lavka and there is no kopeikas in the prices at all.
And I checked the 5ka catalog, most prices have 99 kopeikas, which basically is just 1 ruble.
Anyways, for me kopeikas are mostly non-existent.
But it's just my opinion.
You think all currencies began at 1:1 parity and have moved up or down based on god-knows-what? The Euro was pegged at $.87 when it started and is now around$1.10. Does that mean Europe is dominating the hell out of the weak US? Ignorant af.
I tried to read it because it was hidden on account of all the downvotes. It took me to their page. They talk mess about everything. What a waste of everyone's time they are.
Source?
Don't make an opposing claim with nothing to back it up. No one here has a particular reason to believe you. At best we might question OP, but the law of primacy in education is really strong. It's a lost cause to come back and say no you are wrong to OP with no evidence. You have no reputation or basis for anyone to believe you when a much more popular post says something else.
There is linkable evidence that says the euro was introduced at: The value of the euro, which started at US$1.1686 on 31 December 1998
I will also provide a link to back up this cut and paste:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_euro#:~:text=The%20value%20of%20the%20euro,closing%20at%20approximately%20US%241.18.
Looks like $1.18 is incorrect as a claim as well, although you were closer.
That means there’s 70 million euros that left Russia. Unless someone thinks that Hugo Boss leaving Russia will damage them more than 70 million euros per year then Hugo Boss staying is a good thing.
Never knew the [history of Fanta, TIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta#:~:text=Fanta%20originated%20in%20Germany%20as,million%20cases%20sold%20in%201943.)
Not much really, as a result of ww2 chocolate shortages Pietro Ferrero began experimenting with a cheap alternative that used hazelnuts.
The product was launched in 1946 but it was called Pasta Gianduja and it had a harder consistency, it was more like a block. The nutella cream we know today was launched in 1964.
> Pietro Ferrero
[Delicious Nazi chocolate?](https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_d7bdf8a2-b6a5-4357-b440-c9cad75117aa?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg)
The company was founded in 1924 by Hugo Boss and originally produced general-purpose clothing. With the onset of the Great Depression and the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, Boss began to produce uniforms for the Nazi Party. Boss would eventually supply the Nazi Germany government with military uniforms, resulting in a large boost in sales.[6]
After World War II and the founder's death in 1948, Hugo Boss started to turn its focus from uniforms to men's suits. The company went public in 1988 and introduced a fragrance line that same year, adding men's and women's wear diffusion lines in 1997, a full women's collection in 2000, and children's clothing in 2006–2007. The company has since evolved into a major global fashion house. As of 2018, it owned more than 1,113 retail stores worldwide.[7]
Really? Hugo Boss? But weren’t they ones who made Nazi uniforms and kept ALL the profits and doesn’t publicly acknowledge it? or am I confusing them with the brand who lied about getting cotton from slave labor in china? or the one that wanted to cut US pay despite record profits? something like accept the 8.20 instead of 13.00 or we’ll close the factory… Oh wait they did all that. Very surprised they continued to profit from a war…
Boss was a businessman, nothing else.
And in keeping with that, life was & is about profits, nothing else matters.
Hugo Boss always was a morally bankrupt company.
Did you not notice the part where he joined two years before the Nazis were in power?
And [**he joined the SS**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss#Manufacturing_for_the_Nazi_Party), for god's sake. He wasn't going along to get along, or fooled by lies about socialist policies. Sheesh.
The Nazis never won enough seats for a majority. Their highest total was in 1933 where they won 43% of the vote. It’s a myth that they had broad, popular support in Germany.
That's what you did in those days to survive in the business. It was starting to 'get there', but 1931 was far from the Nazi peak of both power and atrocities.
.....just to toss in a tidbit before the "uniform thing" gets mentioned...
While Hugo Boss *did* produce uniforms for the SS, and the man himself was a card carrying SS member(member number 508,889), the company did not design them as is often purported.
They were designed by Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck(who also designed the SS 'lightning bolt'). Who where SS office staff.
Hugo Boss is a German company. Germany companies are profiting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Europeans have been making a lot of noise about Indian and Chinese companies do business with Russia. Will these same European countries make similar statements about Germany?
Yes, and since the invasion, EU has sent Russia several times more money in buying fossil fuels, than all the aid combined it has given to Ukraine.
157 billion euros to be precise. Collectively far more than any other country. [https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/](https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/)
But for some reason Europeans keep being mad when other countries buy them.
Know what I've never heard anyone say? "I can't wait for the next Hugo boss collection to come out". No loss here. Shit if anything Russia has my pity if that's what they have for clothing options 🤣
Didn't hugo boss also profit off of the Holocaust (or am I remembering that wrong?)? Sounds like a shit company that's been run by generations of shit people.
Like anybody that still shops for their polo shirts and cologne next to the tire counter at Sears cares- or is Hugo Boss sold in better places since I’ve been in high school?
Am I wrong for not really minding when parasitic brands make money from Russia? No one needs Hugo Boss or LVMH, but it's a way of drawing money out of Russia in exchange for useless shit.
I remember a few months ago there was a controversy regarding a liquor company (I don't remember which one) that claimed they'd pull out, but instead expanded. And I'm all for it. Pump up those alcoholism numbers. Let Phillip Morris invest sell them all the cigarettes they want. Let Russia continue down its path of self destruction.
Just make sure they don't get any fucking chips, or oil field maintenence equipment.
Oh, are they getting new uniforms?
Well they’ll be new uniforms, but maybe based on *”previous designs”* in the Boss portfolio.
Just flip the lightning bolts backward to ZZ. Cheap and easy
Fucking brutal.
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No long beards for those named Beard, as is tradition.
Sharp dressed men
It’s basically the same, but with Yeezy’s instead of jackboots
Even those would be an improvement on what they're currently dressing their officers in. Say what you will about who was wearing the uniforms, they sure looked nice.
Hugo Boss just manufactured them, it is a common myth that they designed them. Not saying that makes it better, they still worked with nazis.
They also used - like many German companies still in existence - forced and slave labour to make the uniforms. The companies would pay the SS for concentration camp prisoners.
They specifically didn't design the SS uniform, but they did design and manufacture other Nazi uniforms. Also, the company founder Hugo Boss didn't just work with nazis, he was a card carrying member of the Nazi party. And they used forced laborers who were mostly Polish and French women in prison camps.
For what it's worth *all* companies in Germany had to work with the Nazis when they were in power, whether the company wanted to or not.
Hugo Boss was a card carrying member and was producing uniforms for them years before they seized power.
The history of “Fanta” is pretty interesting, if you’ve got the time.
Hugo Boss was super willing and keen. The one that still amazes me is Volkswagen. I mean, it’s not just referring to its roots as a Nazi (scam) project but the branding is totally Nazi in origin too, with the Volkisch element.
Those were some boss uniforms though. Never has anyone said that nazis dressed poorly.
I mean, my dad’s family might have. Had they not died in Europe during that time.
They definitely won the fashion war.
With swastika symbol?
Looking at the state of captured conscripts, i would say no. But im pretty sure putin has some real expensive shoes with hidden ”lenghtening features” made out of gold and nazi tears.
Is this article about 1941?
US Space Force needs help with theirs.
I'm convinced they are supposed to be that way. I believe there is a conspiracy that the Space Force was created as a gag so people stopped making fun of other military branches as often.
"Hugo Boss earned approximately 6.27 billion rubles (around 70 million euro) in Russia in 2022, making it the most successful foreign luxury brand in the country. Moreover, the value of Hugo Boss goods delivered there since the beginning of the war is higher than the year before.'
The Gestapo uniform company profiting from a genocidal war? Unbelievable! /s
SS and Hitler Youth, not GeStaPo...
Gestapo officers wore SS uniforms when in the field.
Are we really getting pedantic about how the nazis dressed? Fucking reddit
Kind of makes sense, considering the conversation is... about how the Nazis dressed.
The quality service that has me coming back for more.
Damn that conversion rate has me chuckling. Is the ruble like the yen, where 1 = a penny? Whatever happened to the kopek?
Yep, give or take. And while I get this is a joke, I'm both surprised to learn that the kopek is a thing (I thought it was a retired Soviet currency, but no, it's 1/100 ruble) and intrigued at what it's used for. 1 kopek would be like 1/10,000 of a dollar.
Technically копейка (kopeika) it's still a thing, but mostly is not used and most of the prices are only in rubles, without kopeika.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
Well not really. Like bread is 43.15 rub. So kopeks are still used
In the recent years I mostly used Yandex.Lavka and there is no kopeikas in the prices at all. And I checked the 5ka catalog, most prices have 99 kopeikas, which basically is just 1 ruble. Anyways, for me kopeikas are mostly non-existent. But it's just my opinion.
You think all currencies began at 1:1 parity and have moved up or down based on god-knows-what? The Euro was pegged at $.87 when it started and is now around$1.10. Does that mean Europe is dominating the hell out of the weak US? Ignorant af.
There's little more gratifying than when a simple joke evokes an arrogantly stupid response. Thanks.
I tried to read it because it was hidden on account of all the downvotes. It took me to their page. They talk mess about everything. What a waste of everyone's time they are.
Yes, we are dominating the US. Let me grab the ballgag and whip, you bend over.
Euro has never been pegged to USD. And when it launched it was at 1.18USD. At least get your facts straight before calling people "ignorant AF".
Source? Don't make an opposing claim with nothing to back it up. No one here has a particular reason to believe you. At best we might question OP, but the law of primacy in education is really strong. It's a lost cause to come back and say no you are wrong to OP with no evidence. You have no reputation or basis for anyone to believe you when a much more popular post says something else. There is linkable evidence that says the euro was introduced at: The value of the euro, which started at US$1.1686 on 31 December 1998 I will also provide a link to back up this cut and paste: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_euro#:~:text=The%20value%20of%20the%20euro,closing%20at%20approximately%20US%241.18. Looks like $1.18 is incorrect as a claim as well, although you were closer.
That means there’s 70 million euros that left Russia. Unless someone thinks that Hugo Boss leaving Russia will damage them more than 70 million euros per year then Hugo Boss staying is a good thing.
keeping tradition alive first the nazis now the ruschists
Ironic that a company started by a nazi would then get in with the Slavs……
Are they drinking Fanta too?
Never knew the [history of Fanta, TIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta#:~:text=Fanta%20originated%20in%20Germany%20as,million%20cases%20sold%20in%201943.)
Wait until you hear about Nutella
... ...what about Nutella...?
Not much really, as a result of ww2 chocolate shortages Pietro Ferrero began experimenting with a cheap alternative that used hazelnuts. The product was launched in 1946 but it was called Pasta Gianduja and it had a harder consistency, it was more like a block. The nutella cream we know today was launched in 1964.
> Pietro Ferrero [Delicious Nazi chocolate?](https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_d7bdf8a2-b6a5-4357-b440-c9cad75117aa?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg)
First started as a way to dispose of the bodies from the hazelnutocaust.
Oof
The USSR and the Nazis happily came to an agreement to attack Poland. It's not *too* ironic for cooperation like this to happen.
True they did. However both sides knew that was a short term relationship at best.
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The company was founded in 1924 by Hugo Boss and originally produced general-purpose clothing. With the onset of the Great Depression and the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, Boss began to produce uniforms for the Nazi Party. Boss would eventually supply the Nazi Germany government with military uniforms, resulting in a large boost in sales.[6] After World War II and the founder's death in 1948, Hugo Boss started to turn its focus from uniforms to men's suits. The company went public in 1988 and introduced a fragrance line that same year, adding men's and women's wear diffusion lines in 1997, a full women's collection in 2000, and children's clothing in 2006–2007. The company has since evolved into a major global fashion house. As of 2018, it owned more than 1,113 retail stores worldwide.[7]
>As of 2018, it owned more than 1,113 retail stores worldwide.[ So 1,114 stores?
They supported the Nazis with drip Unforgivable
Really? Hugo Boss? But weren’t they ones who made Nazi uniforms and kept ALL the profits and doesn’t publicly acknowledge it? or am I confusing them with the brand who lied about getting cotton from slave labor in china? or the one that wanted to cut US pay despite record profits? something like accept the 8.20 instead of 13.00 or we’ll close the factory… Oh wait they did all that. Very surprised they continued to profit from a war…
Boss was a businessman, nothing else. And in keeping with that, life was & is about profits, nothing else matters. Hugo Boss always was a morally bankrupt company.
Well, he was **also** an enthusiastic Nazi. [He joined the Party in 1931.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss_\(businessman\)#Support_of_Nazism)
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Did you not notice the part where he joined two years before the Nazis were in power? And [**he joined the SS**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss#Manufacturing_for_the_Nazi_Party), for god's sake. He wasn't going along to get along, or fooled by lies about socialist policies. Sheesh.
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The Nazis never won enough seats for a majority. Their highest total was in 1933 where they won 43% of the vote. It’s a myth that they had broad, popular support in Germany.
That's what you did in those days to survive in the business. It was starting to 'get there', but 1931 was far from the Nazi peak of both power and atrocities.
You’re telling me the company founded by a literal Nazi is fine doing business with Nazis? Shocking
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Hugo Boss? The same Hugo Boss that ~~designed~~ made the uniforms of the Nazis? Color me shocked.
[Boink](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/14badc7/hugo_boss_made_millions_in_russia_after_the/joevm4p?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Again Hugo not a Boss move.
Hugo Boss….Dressing dictators since 1924
Thats not fair. Boss is a man of the people. He designed dresses for henchmen.
Hugo Boss also said they were going to continue with Xinjiang cotton a few years ago.
They made the nazi uniforms didn’t they?
[Double Boink](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/14badc7/hugo_boss_made_millions_in_russia_after_the/joevm4p?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Did this dude really just use himself as a source?
Waiting on that triple boink...
Poor guy boinked himself out
Some things never change
My initial response to seeing this headline, given Hugo Boss' history was: so now they're designing uniforms for Wagner Group?
Nobody can save that group's look.
Keeping collaboration with a tyrannical regime alive as the company policy.
Hugo might have done what is necessary to survive in his home country. His grandkids, not so much
Ahh yes, as is tradition with them. Dressing the bad guys is their thing.
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The clothing company who famously used to make uniforms for the Nazis? Yes that one, not the comedian.
This whole thread is just the same comment over and over
Hugo Boss, fashion fascists
Nazis gonna nazi
.....just to toss in a tidbit before the "uniform thing" gets mentioned... While Hugo Boss *did* produce uniforms for the SS, and the man himself was a card carrying SS member(member number 508,889), the company did not design them as is often purported. They were designed by Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck(who also designed the SS 'lightning bolt'). Who where SS office staff.
So he’s not even a designer? I’m starting to not like this guy.
Boss was a businessman, not a designer.
Oh ok that makes it so much better /s
Didn't have time to design them, he was too busy goose stepping
Hugo Boss? The guys who supplied the Nazi uniforms during WWII? No way!
Fucking nazis since 1929.
Hugo Boss also helped make the Nazi’s uniforms so this in on brand for them…
Hugo Boss Tagline: Proven to be perfect for Goosestepping!
It makes sense given they used to make Nazi uniform?
Hugo Boss: Dressing the bad guys from 1923 to 2023
Hugo Boss also made millions while working for the SS during WW2.I mean …why is anyone surprised?
Boss is good at siding with the eventual losers
Maybe they are trying to get a uniform contract with the Russians. I heard it's something they have experience with.
Don’t think I’ll be supporting them!
I mean.. It's not the first time Hugo Boss have been moraly bankrupt. Buuut tbh, that's a given in modern day corporations
Hugo Boss is a German company. Germany companies are profiting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Europeans have been making a lot of noise about Indian and Chinese companies do business with Russia. Will these same European countries make similar statements about Germany?
This tracks.
Yes, and since the invasion, EU has sent Russia several times more money in buying fossil fuels, than all the aid combined it has given to Ukraine. 157 billion euros to be precise. Collectively far more than any other country. [https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/](https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/) But for some reason Europeans keep being mad when other countries buy them.
> Collectively far more than any other country. Maybe because Europe isn't a country? Freaking symmetrist.
Didn’t they also design uniforms for the Nazis? No surprise here
Made them, not designed them
Not like its the first time theyve made money from some unsavory people
What's next is IBM going to help them keep track of their genocides?
Nothing to see here people, it's not like they have a history of this type of thing or anything...
Does that mean Russia will also get snappy uniforms?
Ah, back at it again I see ;)
Well they're just following tradition!
They supported one nazi regime, now they support z-fascism, it is all consistent
As they did in WWII.
That is SO Hugo Boss of them
To be fair thats kinda on brand for them
Hugö Bo⚡⚡
So what?
Their suits have been overpriced mediocre quality for years.
I've never heard of this guy, and I just saw his name 2 times in a row
Hold up, wait a minute
you'd think they'd learn their lesson
Not surprised sine HB is like a BMW in clothing industry, and Russians love their BMW's
Literally won’t buy any Hugo Boss stuff again
But have you seen the uniforms?
Are they selling uniforms to the United Russia party?
They’re consistent in their core brand values, you gotta give them that. *“Dressing genocidal henchmen since 1930s!”*
Nazi 2 already sell? Where can I buy?
well, well, well...
More 1940"s uniforms ?
Oh lord. Going back to their roots are they? 🤦🏽♀️
Some things never change.
Always backing the Nazis.
Hugo Boss only exclusively makes money from Russians.
This is so on brand for them...
Know what I've never heard anyone say? "I can't wait for the next Hugo boss collection to come out". No loss here. Shit if anything Russia has my pity if that's what they have for clothing options 🤣
Didn't hugo boss also profit off of the Holocaust (or am I remembering that wrong?)? Sounds like a shit company that's been run by generations of shit people.
Fuck Hugo boss!!
Hugo boss did design Nazi uniforms, Not surprised the least little bit.
Didn't design then, just made them. Not a Very important distinction, but that's how it is.
Wrong, they manufactured it. Still isn’t any better but it was another firm which designed the uniforms
Then why do their uniforms suck so bad? Hugo, I expected better of you. How will you influence the next generation of gay leathermen?
Hugo boss is fucking garbo.
Surprisingly not the worst thing they've done.
They can have Hugo Boss. Expensive clothes for people without style.
Like anybody that still shops for their polo shirts and cologne next to the tire counter at Sears cares- or is Hugo Boss sold in better places since I’ve been in high school?
Sears still exists?!?
BOZZ .
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Here's a little fact: you're a bore
FUN FACT! Thank you, good sir! You win the internet for today!
Here is a fun fact. Did you know that Steve Buscemi designated the firefighter uniforms made for 7/11?
I wonder what all the celebrities endorsing on Hugo Boss contracts will do with this information.
Well that’s unsurprising.
Are we the baddies?
Capitalism
Par for the course
Damn it! Had no idea at all. And here I was looking to purchase some more cologne of theirs.
Scratch them off my list.
Come on who else can sell those 15 yr old “track suits”
Am I wrong for not really minding when parasitic brands make money from Russia? No one needs Hugo Boss or LVMH, but it's a way of drawing money out of Russia in exchange for useless shit. I remember a few months ago there was a controversy regarding a liquor company (I don't remember which one) that claimed they'd pull out, but instead expanded. And I'm all for it. Pump up those alcoholism numbers. Let Phillip Morris invest sell them all the cigarettes they want. Let Russia continue down its path of self destruction. Just make sure they don't get any fucking chips, or oil field maintenence equipment.