Russell Brand got kicked outta the GQ men's awards I
which I'm amused by because Russell Brand is always a little bit of a rabble
rouser when it comes to events like this
and he was talking about the sponsor the event hugo boss and said the following:
if anyone knows a bit about history in fashion you know it was hugo boss who
made uniforms for the nazis
but they look a fucking fantastic let's face it while they were killing people
on the basis of their religion and sexuality
okay do students get it giant set on a man
there's I be honest with you alway rebel headquarters were bad as whatever
I couldn't begin to have said that I
look he made he to a good way over the top break
that's their top sponsor they gonna lose it yet of course they did
so the editor said up what you did was very
offensive to hugo boss and Russell Brand responded with hugo boss did was very
fitted to the Jews
dare a say I like Russell Brand his freakin sexy
lleno Russell Brand is obviously belongs to rebel headquarters at national leader
avoid
orders but the but now look of course be fair
what happened with your boss was a long time ago those in world war two
but it at the same if was hugo boss the guy that the companies named after right
so hugo boss did make uniforms
up for the nazis and I mean obviously that's disasters in and of itself and
party issue with a lot of these companies these american companies that
continue to operate in the United States is that they won't
admit guilt they won't apologize for their involvement with Nazi Germany
so hugo boss was one of them another company was actually
Volkswagen and IBM beer and Siemens so let me explain all these companies to
you guys
so it turns out that Hitler are really like Portis and portion and volkswagen
at the time and I i believe still to this day are owned by the same company
so he wanted um officious small cars for
you know his people to drive around so the owner a Volkswagen actually worked
with him to design the car
so that beetle that you're driving part of that was
created by Hitler which is insane he helped to design the car
so in Outlook these are all international companies oh yeah I was
who also was a German company the time I V I was an American company
so you know when you look back to you I've worked with nazis oh my god
now at the same time at the time
people do business with everybody like their I mean they were a whore
core capitalists rate they're like we're open for business so
Prescott Bush idea his company course a grandfather George W Bush the father
George HW Bush had is financial company it goes
with Germany because they dealings with police ago
different countries at the time different governments at the time
of those people go back where did you know Prescott Bush work for the nazis
no he didn't work for the nazis they had financial dealings yeah
the if fascinating Fred Koch this
the father of the Koch brothers made his fortune working first I'll
okay working with stalin I should be more accurate about that
that's where you were initially made his money that my guess is he was wracked
with guilt
and then we overreact was a god the god damn copied as I gamble a vid
and so we're gonna go massively right-wing and terrorized when a
different direction
it's edible a hey dude I did make a body oversaw so it's a fascinating issue
that all these people at the time they're doing business with all these
guys who wanna being horrendous definitely
a so let's talk about the other companies because it's just so
interesting
so IBM I was part of that listen back in those days the only way to keep
cheap track of use data bases was an extremely complicated system involving
punch cards and IBM was the best
at constructing and maintaining those databases IBM's punch card data bases
could keep track a anything so basically they created these punch cards
and it would help are the nazis keep track up the Jews
so I mean that is disasters and still till this day
IBM will not apologize or or admit guilt for that
so that's a no says look honestly this is bad as it gets no that's not as bad
as it gets I have more
so siemens is on that list and siemens is known for building wind turbines in a
bunch of other things
but at the time love you know world war two do they help the Nazis built
factories
any okay so that's a bit of a disaster and these factories
a were where you included where a lotta love
you know Jews were tortured and and and help to
war machine rights legal rail infrastructure communications
power generation et cetera rate so
it you know you help the Nazi war machine hoover
thats a huge issues but like to me the visceral reaction
accounting the people said the concentration camps and helping them
touted more efficiently
now look again I was a million years ago the people that work for IBM or see
mister ok so you have nothing to do with that
today rate but at the very least and most companies have done this
you got to do a massive like record-shattering apology
head a there was a time perhaps where they should have rebranded the company's
rename the company's well okay though so bear did attempt to rename the company
they wanted to rename it as something else because they were worried about
the fact that they created the gas that was used
of nevermind that's what you said I B yet so
yeah but apparently that didn't work so they
they stuck with their breath yep so yes look bad when you go back
its it's a disaster in it so the one the Euro so great credit for the you agree
with the way that he did or not
is he started that conversation and it's a fascinating conversation
right and and I don't know why but I was like hugo boss was Italian
because they make clothing you for your their Italian I never thought like you
go he was like the most German name in the world right
and then boss and then now that I know he's German it have built the
Nazi uniforms obscure should list like like
hello I'm Hugo Boss Michael fuck that ok I want to be so they also assume that
that was like a stage name
everything was name is Hugo Boss eyes never the nazis back right here but they
is they must have been a completely by the way guide
defacto Russell Brand has brought this back at the news
work now likes 67 years later eight
hugo boss was feel like Yahoo
wouldn't you do ill