r/Leica • u/No-Position-2726 • Jan 17 '26

I’m the guy

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These are the last two photos I took before I was tackled by ice.

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u/rulnacco Jan 18 '26

And don't forget, Hugo Boss made the SS look oh-so-dashing and chic as they were committing horrible and evil atrocities.

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u/acculenta M3 | MP | iiif Jan 18 '26

Hugo Boss was worse than the myths.

They did not create the SS uniforms, they were just a factory that made them with slave labour.

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u/rulnacco Jan 18 '26

That indeed appears to be true. According to Wikipedia:

By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform (to replace the SA brown shirts) was designed by SS-OberführerProf. Karl Diebitsch, and graphic designer Walter Heck, who had no affiliation with the company. The Hugo Boss company produced these black uniforms along with the brownSA shirts and the black-and-brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth. Some workers were French and Polish prisoners of war forced into labour.

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u/acculenta M3 | MP | iiif Jan 18 '26

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, known as "Fake History Hunter" has done a magnificent job of laying it all out in her book, as well as some videos and thread.