Hugo Boss Linked to Nazis?

Do you remember Hugo Boss? Yes, Hugo Boss is one of many well known brands that people in the world. Unfortunately, this famous accessory brand was facing a negative rumor, the rumor is about the relation with the Nazis.
The link between Hugo Boss with the Nazis has become a gossip decades old. In the book Hugo Boss, 1924-1945: The History of a Clothing Factory During the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, by Roman Koester, economic historian at the German Armed Forces University in Munich, the linkage is not just as a provider of uniforms for the Waffen SS. Hugo Boss also actively supported the Nazi campaign contains harness the power of the number of workers in their factories.
Koester said the findings, as many as 140 people from Poland, mostly women, and 40 people who are all French prisoners of war were employed in their plants during the Holocaust period. They were housed in a mess that was in the factory area and live in conditions very pemrihatinkan of the availability of food and hygiene.
Koester stated, Hugo Ferdinand Boss, the owner, did not show willingness to improve their condition until the year 1944, a year after the war ended.
"We can only say that they work under pressure and pekasaan, but concern for their well-being did not exist," he said.
He also said that Hugo Boss is one of 15 thousand factories in Germany which makes uniforms for Nazi soldiers. "But there was no indication that Hugo Boss became the market leader in products that uniform, nor was there a source that states Hugo Boss was the one who designed the uniform," he said.
Hugo Boss, a German company which has branches in 110 countries, known as a manufacturer of high-end fashion for men and women. On Tuesday, the company issued a formal apology accompanies the launch of the latest book about this company. It also touched on in connection with the Nazi past. "The company expressed deep regret to those who suffer loss or difficulties in the factory run by Hugo Ferdinand Boss under National Socialist rule," they wrote on the company website.
Hugo Boss is not the first company to express regret for the 'sins of the' Nazi-related lau. Ikea company and the SNCF railway network company had done the same thing the previous year.
Billionaire Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea in the past accused of recruiting people to join oarng as a fascist sympathizer Sweden's Socialist Union (SSS). He expressed regret to state what is the folly of the past and the biggest mistake of his life.