Posted on 02/13/2022 1:35:28 PM PST by dmam2011
Germans can enjoy the taste of soda just as much as Americans
Read the book - Collaboration:Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler - it has all of the details
That reminds me I have my German lesson now, I need to brush up on the umlaut.
Dear Coke: Be less Nazi.
Most posters here on FR already know this, but Fanta Soda definitely has Nazi ties. It’s a long story, but one that is there for the reading. Just dig into Google if you are curious.
I think the ADL wants a larger donation this year.
For that matter, Bayer followed up his invention of aspirin with his invention of heroin.
Then there was Fritz Hauschild, who invented meth under the name Pervitin in 1937. Unlike Hitler, a regular user, Hauschild survived the Nazis, and became an East German commie; AFAIK he didn't invent any more drugs.
More important to today's world would be the present Canadian PM, who is probably trying to drink Canada Dry.
Big business quite literally helped the Nazis conquer Europe and supplied the Nazis until the end. Our government even knew about it and did nothing. Here’s a good piece of research on the matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug3iOJEOpac
Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Krupp Steel, Bayer Aspirin, IG Farben all were big Nazi companies. And they’re still around along with Coke.Mercedez, to its credit, refused to cooperate with anti-Israel boycotts by the Saudis, so apparently they’re better now, but don’t own any car, let alone a Mercedes.
Me, I don’t drink Coke because it’s loaded with sugar, along with minute quantities of phosphoric acid and other bad stuff. But most of all, because it tastes like dog-sh!t. Pepsi’s little better.
That’s a Coca-Cola swastika bottle opener, 1925. Pre-Nazi days, when it was still a symbol of good fortune.
Back then it was more associated with India than Germany.
And Apple, and Nike, and Disney, etc etc etc.
A quarter century ago, I had a job in the research library of a chemical company building a computer index of the thousands and thousands of patents they had filed in drawers, some going back to the early 1900s. There were a lot from IG Farbenindustrie, which stopped being granted patents right about the time WW2 ended. Poof! That vanishing act is what got me interested in the history of the company and its successors.
Good God. Enough of this nonsense.
“OMG, American company does business overseas!”
Big deal. Why bring it up now? Because you’re upset with them lately with BLM?
If you were making military supplies, you were aiding the war effort. It may be craven, but did have soda help the German war effort?
Pepsi is no better.
Here's an old boy scout badge:
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A postcard from 1910
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Swastika, the global spiritual symbol before Nazi demeaned it!
The Windsor Swastikas hockey team in Canada, ca. 1905-1916.
The 1909 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team.
Clara Bow wearing a swastika in the 1920s.
A Swastika Laundry delivery van in Dublin, founded in 1912.
Kids dressed up for a Halloween party in 1918.
I think you get the idea, right?
IIRC, once we were actually AT WAR with Germany, Coca Cola changed the brand name of their German Product to FANTA to disguise that it was actually Coca Cola supplying the Nazi troops with soda.
And so, not only were they consorting with the enemy, they constructed an eaborate ruse to cover it up.
I still remember seeing FANTA brand soda in stores back in the 50’s. I had no idea that was the origin of the brand untilI read it somewhere.
Eek.
You beat me to it! :-)
thought it was some kind of ribbon medal
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