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Note post 19. Mostly German companies, but a number of prominent American names. Didn't know about the origin of Fanta. No, Fanta isn't being canceled, it's a good Nazi drink.

From the article

Did you know that Nazi Germany was one of Coca-Cola’s biggest markets? Have you ever seen an official Coca-Cola advertisement promoting the company’s partnership with the Nazis during the 1936 Olympics under a jingoistic tagline — “One people, one country, one drink, Coke is it” — that would have made Adolf Hitler proud? No?
Does Coca-Cola not highlight its financial history with Nazi Germany when crowing about its racial purity tests today? Or the fact that Germany’s inconvenient declaration of war against the United States made it sufficiently difficult for Coca-Cola to maintain its prominent reputation within the Reich that the company’s German representatives repurposed the operations of hundreds of bottling plants toward the production of a new drink called Fanta to serve thirsty German soldiers throughout the war? Does the Coca-Cola Company not brag about Fanta’s wartime genesis as a Nazi beverage? How strange.

They were just conforming to the social norms of the Third Reich, just as Mr. Hitler was in his capacity as chancellor cum absolute dictator. Coke didn’t have to go quite that far in order to blend in, just sell their horrible-tasting brew to unsuspecting ubermenschen, probably shortening the war, poisoning enemy troops, driving them to beer and weak white Rhine wines, and as they invaded France, cognac and dry red wine, inebriating them in their desperation to avoid more Fanta./s

From the Wiki-page of FANTA:

75th anniversary version

In February 2015, a 75th-anniversary version of Fanta was released in Germany. Packaged in glass bottles evoking the original design and with an authentic original wartime flavor including 30% whey and pomace, it is described on the packaging as "less sweet" and a German original. An associated television ad referenced the history of the drink and said the Coca-Cola company wanted to bring back "the feeling of the Good Old Times" which was interpreted by many to mean Nazi rule. The ad was subsequently replaced.[10][11]

[10] "Coca-Cola pulls German Fanta ad over Nazi controversy". AOL Money. Mar 5, 2015.

[11] Snyder, Benjamin (3 March 2015). "Coke pulls Fanta ad over Nazi controversy". Fortune. Retrieved 9 March 2015.

The remarkable thing is not that subsidiaries of Coca Cola produced a substitute soft drink in occupied Europe during the war, but that Coca Cola had the singularly bad taste to celebrate the event in 2015(!!!). "The Good Old Times" - my foot!