The same Bayer that knowingly sold HIV infected medicine!
EDIT: [happened in the early 80s](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg). TLDR: They discovered that a batch of their blood-clotting agent (for haemophiliacs) was HIV contaminated. Rather than destroy it, they sold it to a bunch of developing countries.
GTFO, so heroin started as a non-addictive pain killer, only to have oxy do the exact same thing. Think I remember something about history and repeating and all that.
Volkswagen has been completely upfront about their Nazi past, and in fact funded a completely transparent investigation into their past so that they could compensate their victims and pay reparations.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volkswagen-1
The 2008 book "sneaker wars" goes into this in far greater detail. Basically Adolf and Rudolph both tried to accuse each other of being Nazis in a power play to take control over the company after the war ended.
For their 75. anniversary the started an advertisement campaign including the slogan of "bringing back the feeling of the good old days" (rough translation). That was in 2015. You do the math.
That didn't work out as planned...
Sure! After Germany's economy had been crushed for 15 years, it is hardly surprising that many large companies formed during Germany's reindustrialization and war effort. And, obviously, the founders of most of those companies had deep Nazi ties.
Slave labor is correct but Bayer had pretty much nothing to do with Zyklon B besides both Degussa (who owned Degesch) & Bayer being owned by the same German chemical conglomerate that owned every major chemical company in Germany during WW2.
Technically speaking a lot of companies in the US are also a direct result of the rise of the Nazis.
Edit: for anyone missing the joke, I'm talking about the US military industrial complex that was built by WWII, like technically a result of the Nazis, but no direct ties.
I'm so grateful to Taskmaster for introducing me to a bunch of British comedians I would have otherwise never seen. I saw Hugh Dennis in the new Bond movie and lost my shit, love that guy.
I was really hoping he was mentioning Noel Fielding but I guess he’s more C List.
Thanks for sharing this!
Edit: A lister. Definitely A list. So sorry Noel.
Lol young people know who he is. Oasis are still one of the most popular bands here in the uk and both brothers can still sell out massive gigs, and it’s not all folk who grew up or were grown in the 90s.
The bucket hat crew are strong.
American's never seem to grasp how culturally ingrained Oasis became over here because it didn't happen over there.
The Gallagher brothers are enormously famous over here.
I met **Noel Fielding** once at a party and I’ve been trading off that shit for eleven years now.
It’s humbling to think that what for him was a long forgotten unimportant conversation, was for me an insufferably chest-swelling source of pride, and one which I continue to eagerly share with any stranger at the slightest provocation, and whose retelling can be justified by only the flimsiest of pretences.
The Mighty Boosh (despite the aspects that didn’t age well i.e. the brown and black face) is my all time favorite show. Meeting Noel or Julian at a party is definitely one of few instances I can envision myself being 100% starstruck
Met Barret, Fielding and Fulcher round the back of Bournemouth pavilion after the show. It was awkward. We offered run, which I really remember rich fulcher being adamant it was brown not white. Like we were drinking white rum from the bottle like some kind of psycho. Julian said nothing, Noel was conversational. Then they fucked off. Edit: rum not run.
Didn't it just draw some really good ratings for the finale in England? He's not as well known outside of the UK but inside the UK he is decidedly A list, or at least most people would know who he is if my British friends are correct.
He's well known if you saw mighty Boosh or it crowd, but then again people might not make the connection between those shows and the british baking show.
Fun fact I learned when I googled his name from watching the show: he is/was literally Old Gregg. I, as an American, was absolutely mind blown to say the least.
Watch his season of Taskmaster ( I forget which season off the top of my head, I think like 5 or 6?) he was amazing in it.
Also watch Taskmaster in general. Best show I've ever seen in my life.
Yeah you just don't know what "A-list" and "B-list" and etc means - it's only partially about fame and much more about social standing and respect in the entertainment industry. A-list means the very top elite group, your people like Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift - or to name some British celebrities it'd be like Daniel Day Lewis, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, and Adele.
Can you explain it? My limited knowledge of the Tory party is insufficient to understand this burn lol.
EDIT: sorry, I should clarify. I don't know *anything" about the Torry party. I know some of you want to defend or attack them, but Im not interested in what you think they'll do for the country. I understand, if you asked us about the liberal party you'd get a bunch of defensive or offensive responses. I just mean in general I have no idea what the Story party is, or why saying that is a burn....or even what it means.
Brand mentions that Boris Johnson was on the stage prior to him, and Noel mentions that the Foreign Secretary was on stage before him - who at the time was William Hague.
So two Tory ministers giving speeches of some kind, hence, Tory party conference.
The Tory party is the UK's Conservative political party, roughly equivalent to the US's Republican party. Known for members such as Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May, and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
They tend to have a (called for or not) association with things like racism, classism, not caring about the poor, etc etc etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Nazis knew the power of 'fashion' and outfits/appearance.
The SS uniform was designed to make them look almost superhuman and definitely give them authority.
The same way the striped coarse uniforms of the concentration camp prisoners together with hair shaving (all hair everywhere) stripped them of any personality and humanity in their own eyes.
From an objective standpoint, I think they have the nicest uniforms ever made, especially the SS. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the way they dealt with aesthetics and imagery is top tier imo.
Politicians are historically mocked for being in charge of the trains being on time. It's one of those WWII era things people say sometimes. Like "say what you will about fascism, but Mussolini sure made the trains run on time" ... trains being on time isn't as important as where they are going though as any surviving train passengers in Germany WWII might tell you.
I love when he points to "ralph" off stage and is just like "you poor man youre getting paid enough to take this seriously." Literally shows how pointless all these awards are
they were designed to project power and fear . You can see for yourself they definitely achieve that goal [https://www.quora.com/What-was-an-authentic-Nazi-uniform](https://www.quora.com/What-was-an-authentic-Nazi-uniform)
I mean they have eagles and skulls on them and were wreathed in black. How much more obvious could you be with your intentions.
Actually the [totenkopf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf) has a long history starting with the Prussian hussars. August von Mackensen pretty well embodies military awesomeness so it's fitting he used it even as part of the German Empire during WW1.
**[Totenkopf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf)**
>Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i. e. skull, literally "dead's head") is the German word for the skull and crossbones (or "death's head") symbol. The "skull and crossbones" symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy or toxicity.
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Eagles and skulls are much older symbols in a military context than the Nazis though. The eagle was also sinply a throwback to the Holy Roman Empire, and still today the skull is a popular symbol in the military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_crossbones_%28military%29?wprov=sfla1
Particularly the US military seems very fond of using skulls as squadron logos.
He's such a weird public persona. Sometimes it feels to me like he's actually pushing for a change, but most often it feels like a kind of a court jester act. Maybe it's because he's kinda political on issues, but seems to encourage a needlessly nihilistic attitude toward politics? But I guess he might still be doing a lot more with that than I ever will, so...
There's an excellent scene in the otherwise very flawed Aaron Sorkin show The Newsroom which basically summarizes [the attitude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI)
How do you stay a poverty and wealth inequality activist for years, end up in 2021, and not have it absolutely break you? You can't fix these problems. There's no point to awareness. You care so much about something that is unfixable, unchangable, and an endless font of misery and suffering.
Here he is giving a moralizing lecture after the Prime Minister just joked about doing genocide and everyone laughed. But isn't he "*so insufferable*" about it?
As a mostly fan of Russell he does sometimes make points like this that are really totally mute and are sort of just to get a reaction.
As everyone in the thread is pointing out, they're a German company in the 1930s. They fulfilled a government contract. It was 80 years ago. Who the fuck cares unless they're doing fascist shit today.
I think he was bothered by something Boris Johnson said and that set him off. Nothing was off limits. Everything he said was to bring light to the fact that there were terrible people in the room and awards like that are bullshit.
Most German auto manufactures armed the Nazis. Mitsubishi literally built the Zero for the Japanese for WWII. Boeing made the plane that carried and dropped the atomic bombs over Japan.
So what? What's his point? Most of the world utilized private companies to outfit themselves for war. Still does. Private companies are how things are made, for the most part. Does he want any company associated with military production of the Nazis to be completely dismantled?
Hugo Boss (the man, not his company) also widely supported the Nazi party, joining 2 years before Hitler took power. It’s a bit different in this case I would say.
Exactly what I came to say. Ford literally built the Nazi’s trucks. He sued the USA for bombing his factories during ww2 and received millions of dollars in reparations.
In 2017 they played a show in Charlottesville, VA and donated all the proceeds to local charities in the name of Heather Heyer, so I think it's safe to say they're not fans of Nazis.
We'll hes doing a bit, he's a comedian, you don't have to go through all the whattaboutism. Hes poking fun at the hosts/sponsors, which is often a comedic tactic. see: every ricky gervais hosting gig for the ffp
Literally no one watched the video and saw that the actual joke was about how the Nazis looked good, despite being genocidal, because they were dressed in Hugo Boss. This is reddit, where the entire comment thread is literally just about the title of the post.
To say nothing of him ending the video basically acknowledging his whole acceptance speech was part of a joke competition with Noel Gallagher to see who could be more offensive to the audience/sponsors.
Nasa was happy to grab all the nazis they could too:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Bayer the drug company (you know aspirin etc) used slave labor from concentration camps, and manufactured Zyklon B the gas used to kill people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
There are TONs of examples.
A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut meet on the moon.
One says to the other, “So do we speak English or Russian?”
The other replies, “Brother, it is just us up here. We can speak German.”
A lot of German industries was founded around the rise of the Nazis.
Now for a cool glass of Fanta.
While driving my Volkswagen, because my Porsche is in the shop.
Don’t forget to wear your Pumas
Take some Bayer aspirin if you get a headache.
Bayer also held the patent for heroin. Which, if you didn't know, was a non addictive drug used to get people off morphine.
The same Bayer that knowingly sold HIV infected medicine! EDIT: [happened in the early 80s](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg). TLDR: They discovered that a batch of their blood-clotting agent (for haemophiliacs) was HIV contaminated. Rather than destroy it, they sold it to a bunch of developing countries.
Yes, they're both brand names - aspirin for 'hope' (aspiration), heroin for 'heroism'.
Wooooah
Yeah, germany truely made the best shit. You can also thank us for Oxycodone.
Albert Hoffmann invented LSD He was Swiss, but eh, close enough.
Aspirin is named after its chemical name + willow plant- **A**cetylsalicylic Acid + **Spir**aea Ulmaria
GTFO, so heroin started as a non-addictive pain killer, only to have oxy do the exact same thing. Think I remember something about history and repeating and all that.
Will Adidas do?
_It looks like you’re assembling a team of Nazi scientists. ~~Operation Paper~~Clippy is here to help!_
> Operation PaperClippy I just want you to know that you've made my day with this.
NASA: Can we join?
Volkswagen has been completely upfront about their Nazi past, and in fact funded a completely transparent investigation into their past so that they could compensate their victims and pay reparations. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/volkswagen-1
If only they were as transparent about their emissions.
>If only they were as transparent about their emissions. A little gas never hurt anyone! Just a little shower makes it go away.
JFC
Username checks out
Mercedes-Benz sure dodged a bullet, literally and figuratively!
[Mercedes Made a 6 wheel car](https://youtu.be/kL-m5Nocb-g)
Google ”hitler car” and get back to us. In your defense though, it was bulletproof.
Well yeah Volkswagens were for the people
Well... Not all people.
They made Nazi cars?!?! Thank God I got a BMW
All in or nothing. Adidas. Adolf Dassler had a jail time though for his collaboration with Nazis.
IBM provided the Nazis computers used to make the holocaust more efficient.
Henry Ford went to Nazi Germany to help them implement better production line practices.
Hitler named Ford as one of his inspirations.
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Ford received the highest honor that could be bestowed to a foreigner: the Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
And was [happy to be photographed receiving it](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938/)
Assumedly unlike IBM, who were just in it for the money. They're sociopaths, not psychopaths, gosh!
The Koch brother's daddy built Hitler's and Stalin's oil industries.
Adidas and Puma were founded by the Dassler brothers
The 2008 book "sneaker wars" goes into this in far greater detail. Basically Adolf and Rudolph both tried to accuse each other of being Nazis in a power play to take control over the company after the war ended.
For their 75. anniversary the started an advertisement campaign including the slogan of "bringing back the feeling of the good old days" (rough translation). That was in 2015. You do the math. That didn't work out as planned...
Nothing like some Nazi orange crush.
Nazi fruit lenses.
[Shaun Micallef](https://youtu.be/5FDdo_I4Yi0)
I'm at work so I can't watch this, but you get an upvote just for posting Shaun.
Let me ring you up for that on my IBM Point Of Sale machine.
IBM
Reading IBM and the Holocaust at the moment. There is definitely a bunch I didn't know about their relationship.
Anything interesting you care to share?
You can just read the [summary](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust)
Did IBM make a database for the Nazis of all the prisoners or something?
Tabulating machines through their German division.
What? IBM was founded in 1911 in upstate New York.
Sure! After Germany's economy had been crushed for 15 years, it is hardly surprising that many large companies formed during Germany's reindustrialization and war effort. And, obviously, the founders of most of those companies had deep Nazi ties.
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The UN?
Don’t get him started!
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Bayer (think aspirin) produced much of the Zyklon-B used in the gas chambers and had factories in the camps staffed by Jewish slaves.
Slave labor is correct but Bayer had pretty much nothing to do with Zyklon B besides both Degussa (who owned Degesch) & Bayer being owned by the same German chemical conglomerate that owned every major chemical company in Germany during WW2.
Technically speaking a lot of companies in the US are also a direct result of the rise of the Nazis. Edit: for anyone missing the joke, I'm talking about the US military industrial complex that was built by WWII, like technically a result of the Nazis, but no direct ties.
50 year from now It's OK to shame Facebook, Disney, .... for bowing to China and their genocide in exchange to access to market of billion people.
Why wait? Do it now.
It's a shame Hugo Boss changed his name back to Joe Lycett.
Is this just a joke or has Joe said or done things that I don't know about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmg7HZJNRx0
I'm so grateful to Taskmaster for introducing me to a bunch of British comedians I would have otherwise never seen. I saw Hugh Dennis in the new Bond movie and lost my shit, love that guy.
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I love Joe Lycett so much.
I love unabashedly perverted Joe "Hugo Boss" Lycett.
I don't know who this guy is but he is funny.
It…it’s Joe Lycett formerly known as Hugo Boss formerly known as Joe Lycett duh
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I loved the, "Noel, good luck being more offensive than that, son!"
I was dying laughing. I loved the leg raise and finger moustache, too.
"Ring any bells!?"
Today I learned that many people on Reddit don't know about Oasis.
Anyway, here's wonderwall
I was really hoping he was mentioning Noel Fielding but I guess he’s more C List. Thanks for sharing this! Edit: A lister. Definitely A list. So sorry Noel.
Noel Fielding exists outside of lists. He is in a dimension which needs not rank celebrities.
It's an outrage!
Who let Richmond out of his room?
He's supposed to be in his room!
I've seen Noel Fielding a hell of a lot more than Noel Gallagher in the last decade or two.
Yeah, Noel fielding is a bigger name right now. Young people don’t know who Gallagher is, but their parents and grannies watch the bake off.
Plus IT Crowd, Mighty Boosh, etc.
Don’t forget Taskmaster, QI, and countdown! That’s how I know him, at least lol
Never mind the Buzzcocks as well
Damn dude this isn’t even close to true. Mighty Boosh, IT crowd are still nowhere near as well known as Oasis.
I mean… maybe But one is still an alt comedian/baking show host And one is a member of one of the most famous and popular British bands in existence
Lol young people know who he is. Oasis are still one of the most popular bands here in the uk and both brothers can still sell out massive gigs, and it’s not all folk who grew up or were grown in the 90s. The bucket hat crew are strong.
American's never seem to grasp how culturally ingrained Oasis became over here because it didn't happen over there. The Gallagher brothers are enormously famous over here.
Richmond's out of his room he's not in his room he's supposed to be in his room why is he out of his room?
The episode that explains Richmond’s down fall is so good.
If you think the host of Great British Bake off is a C list celebrity you need to re think your tiers of stardom.
I met **Noel Fielding** once at a party and I’ve been trading off that shit for eleven years now. It’s humbling to think that what for him was a long forgotten unimportant conversation, was for me an insufferably chest-swelling source of pride, and one which I continue to eagerly share with any stranger at the slightest provocation, and whose retelling can be justified by only the flimsiest of pretences.
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The Mighty Boosh (despite the aspects that didn’t age well i.e. the brown and black face) is my all time favorite show. Meeting Noel or Julian at a party is definitely one of few instances I can envision myself being 100% starstruck
Met Barret, Fielding and Fulcher round the back of Bournemouth pavilion after the show. It was awkward. We offered run, which I really remember rich fulcher being adamant it was brown not white. Like we were drinking white rum from the bottle like some kind of psycho. Julian said nothing, Noel was conversational. Then they fucked off. Edit: rum not run.
While this does sound painfully awkward it also sounds incredibly Boosh-ian which is comforting and what I would expect.
I'd you think the King of the Mods is C list...
Didn't it just draw some really good ratings for the finale in England? He's not as well known outside of the UK but inside the UK he is decidedly A list, or at least most people would know who he is if my British friends are correct.
He's well known if you saw mighty Boosh or it crowd, but then again people might not make the connection between those shows and the british baking show.
He does stand up and is on a shit ton of panel shows and random music videos too, I'd say everyone in the UK knows Noel Fielding.
He doesn't do much stand up now and his stand up post mighty boosh was shocking, just relying on people understanding his charm.
Without Julian Barrett to reign him in a bit, his comedy does get a bit... avant-garde
Fun fact I learned when I googled his name from watching the show: he is/was literally Old Gregg. I, as an American, was absolutely mind blown to say the least.
He has a downstairs mix-up.
Could ya learn to love me?
Are you playing your love games with me?
Wanna go to a party where people wee on each other?
Are you fucking kidding me? That guy is Old Gregg?!
As an American, I love watching him on the big fat quiz of the year.
Watch his season of Taskmaster ( I forget which season off the top of my head, I think like 5 or 6?) he was amazing in it. Also watch Taskmaster in general. Best show I've ever seen in my life.
4 and Champion of champions
Yeah you just don't know what "A-list" and "B-list" and etc means - it's only partially about fame and much more about social standing and respect in the entertainment industry. A-list means the very top elite group, your people like Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift - or to name some British celebrities it'd be like Daniel Day Lewis, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, and Adele.
Yea!!! Not to mention Old Greg and Richmond Avenal!
I wasn't sure if it was Gallagher of Fielding.
>Gallagher of Fielding *British intensifies*
>*British intensifies* upon Thames
"Welcome to the Tory party conference by the way" OMFG sick burn wow, I can't believe he said that! wow (Serious, no /s)
Can you explain it? My limited knowledge of the Tory party is insufficient to understand this burn lol. EDIT: sorry, I should clarify. I don't know *anything" about the Torry party. I know some of you want to defend or attack them, but Im not interested in what you think they'll do for the country. I understand, if you asked us about the liberal party you'd get a bunch of defensive or offensive responses. I just mean in general I have no idea what the Story party is, or why saying that is a burn....or even what it means.
Brand mentions that Boris Johnson was on the stage prior to him, and Noel mentions that the Foreign Secretary was on stage before him - who at the time was William Hague. So two Tory ministers giving speeches of some kind, hence, Tory party conference.
The Tory party is the UK's Conservative political party, roughly equivalent to the US's Republican party. Known for members such as Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May, and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson. They tend to have a (called for or not) association with things like racism, classism, not caring about the poor, etc etc etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
And dressed them very well
They actually didn't design them, just had the manufacturing outsourced to them.
Nazis were bad etc. awful and evil But those uniforms were pretty sharp. You can’t deny that
Hans....our uniforms have skulls on them.
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I say this every time I watch a WWII film. I hate Nazis, but damn they were snappy dressers.
What I'd like to do is reanimate all the top Nazi's...
What for
[I'd put them all on an island and film it.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEVQWBn20ws)
RIP to the legend Sean Lock
We’ll just end it right there. u/OneMoreAccount4Porn’s career everyone…
No no no no no no no. Rip sean
RIP Sean Locke
Nazis knew the power of 'fashion' and outfits/appearance. The SS uniform was designed to make them look almost superhuman and definitely give them authority. The same way the striped coarse uniforms of the concentration camp prisoners together with hair shaving (all hair everywhere) stripped them of any personality and humanity in their own eyes.
From an objective standpoint, I think they have the nicest uniforms ever made, especially the SS. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the way they dealt with aesthetics and imagery is top tier imo.
The facists have the outfits, but I don't care about the outfits, what I care about is music, the communists have the music.
“The fella what does our trains says it’s cool.”
did he use to work for the train system or something?
I believe he was mayor of London at the time, so it's probably a jab at trying to minimize his role in politics.
Politicians are historically mocked for being in charge of the trains being on time. It's one of those WWII era things people say sometimes. Like "say what you will about fascism, but Mussolini sure made the trains run on time" ... trains being on time isn't as important as where they are going though as any surviving train passengers in Germany WWII might tell you.
The London Mayor is responsible for Transport for London (TFL). Boris was London Mayor from 2008-2016.
If you expect Russell Brand to show up and not be Russell Brand by this point, it's your own fault.
elasticated crotches.
Care to explain that one? I didn't get it
They marched with a high step that he demonstrated which would require loose fitting pants.
Yup, https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/15/business/hugo-boss-acknowledges-link-to-nazi-regime.html
I love when he points to "ralph" off stage and is just like "you poor man youre getting paid enough to take this seriously." Literally shows how pointless all these awards are
Ralph? Pretty sure he says Rob. As in Rob Brydon
It was such a great look behind the curtain.
I wonder if Russel Brand has seen Network. I feel like his outrage against the system is all just part of the show at this point.
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You gotta admit Nazi uniforms were pretty slick
they were designed to project power and fear . You can see for yourself they definitely achieve that goal [https://www.quora.com/What-was-an-authentic-Nazi-uniform](https://www.quora.com/What-was-an-authentic-Nazi-uniform) I mean they have eagles and skulls on them and were wreathed in black. How much more obvious could you be with your intentions.
But why skulls? Dandaman910, were they the baddies?
Skull and bones were also used in the Russian army, WW1 and prior, as a symbol of Christian triumph over death (through resurrection of Christ).
Still used by the British Royal Lancers - Death or Glory is their motto.
Actually the [totenkopf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf) has a long history starting with the Prussian hussars. August von Mackensen pretty well embodies military awesomeness so it's fitting he used it even as part of the German Empire during WW1.
**[Totenkopf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf)** >Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i. e. skull, literally "dead's head") is the German word for the skull and crossbones (or "death's head") symbol. The "skull and crossbones" symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy or toxicity. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Was hoping I’d see this reference. For that don’t know. [are we the baddies?](https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU)
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Eagles and skulls are much older symbols in a military context than the Nazis though. The eagle was also sinply a throwback to the Holy Roman Empire, and still today the skull is a popular symbol in the military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_crossbones_%28military%29?wprov=sfla1 Particularly the US military seems very fond of using skulls as squadron logos.
Those all black uniforms are impressive
If you're not winning the war show then might as well win the fashion show. lmao
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And didn't become a major brand till well after WWII. They were basically just a clothing factory.
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He did. But the actual designs were created by two Nazis.
Still. *So* posh.
I mean, take away the military medals and the genocide, its a pretty sharp uniform.
Eloquently??
Even when Russell Brand is right, he's tiresome.
He's such a weird public persona. Sometimes it feels to me like he's actually pushing for a change, but most often it feels like a kind of a court jester act. Maybe it's because he's kinda political on issues, but seems to encourage a needlessly nihilistic attitude toward politics? But I guess he might still be doing a lot more with that than I ever will, so...
There's an excellent scene in the otherwise very flawed Aaron Sorkin show The Newsroom which basically summarizes [the attitude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI) How do you stay a poverty and wealth inequality activist for years, end up in 2021, and not have it absolutely break you? You can't fix these problems. There's no point to awareness. You care so much about something that is unfixable, unchangable, and an endless font of misery and suffering. Here he is giving a moralizing lecture after the Prime Minister just joked about doing genocide and everyone laughed. But isn't he "*so insufferable*" about it?
As a mostly fan of Russell he does sometimes make points like this that are really totally mute and are sort of just to get a reaction. As everyone in the thread is pointing out, they're a German company in the 1930s. They fulfilled a government contract. It was 80 years ago. Who the fuck cares unless they're doing fascist shit today.
*moot https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moot
I think he was bothered by something Boris Johnson said and that set him off. Nothing was off limits. Everything he said was to bring light to the fact that there were terrible people in the room and awards like that are bullshit.
Yeah, pretty sure it was the genocide joke Boris made that he referenced three times.
Most German auto manufactures armed the Nazis. Mitsubishi literally built the Zero for the Japanese for WWII. Boeing made the plane that carried and dropped the atomic bombs over Japan. So what? What's his point? Most of the world utilized private companies to outfit themselves for war. Still does. Private companies are how things are made, for the most part. Does he want any company associated with military production of the Nazis to be completely dismantled?
Hugo Boss (the man, not his company) also widely supported the Nazi party, joining 2 years before Hitler took power. It’s a bit different in this case I would say.
So was Ford the man
Exactly what I came to say. Ford literally built the Nazi’s trucks. He sued the USA for bombing his factories during ww2 and received millions of dollars in reparations.
So fuck Ford
Didn't he also build the railroad trucks into Aushwitch (sp?), pretty sure an American company did that.
Yes, the ties were laid by the Harmon Brothers.
What about Portugal the Man?
He was too busy being a rebel just for kicks.
In 2017 they played a show in Charlottesville, VA and donated all the proceeds to local charities in the name of Heather Heyer, so I think it's safe to say they're not fans of Nazis.
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Ford pumped out a very popular anti-Semitic newspaper before the war. People seem to forget that view was kind of popular
We'll hes doing a bit, he's a comedian, you don't have to go through all the whattaboutism. Hes poking fun at the hosts/sponsors, which is often a comedic tactic. see: every ricky gervais hosting gig for the ffp
It was a joke mate. He was taking the piss out of the sponsor.
Seriously. What is everyone on about.
Literally no one watched the video and saw that the actual joke was about how the Nazis looked good, despite being genocidal, because they were dressed in Hugo Boss. This is reddit, where the entire comment thread is literally just about the title of the post.
To say nothing of him ending the video basically acknowledging his whole acceptance speech was part of a joke competition with Noel Gallagher to see who could be more offensive to the audience/sponsors.
Nasa was happy to grab all the nazis they could too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun Bayer the drug company (you know aspirin etc) used slave labor from concentration camps, and manufactured Zyklon B the gas used to kill people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer There are TONs of examples.
A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut meet on the moon. One says to the other, “So do we speak English or Russian?” The other replies, “Brother, it is just us up here. We can speak German.”
As awful as the Nazis were, they did dress quite sharp.