I believe this was one of his “jokes.”
Eh, it’s one of those brands that has weird Nazi associations that still exists. It’s fine to have it as one of those “things” that you have in your head as a “hmm” mark around companies.
- IBM helped make the bureaucracy of genocide more efficient.
- Fanta is Coca-Cola for Nazis.
- Hugo Boss made their uniforms.
- Volkswagen was the Nazi-mobile.
I didn’t know about that one, so I looked it up.
I’ll actually give Goodyear a pass. My reasoning is that the partnership was to allow a German company, zeppelin, to produce and sell blimps in the US.
They never produced aircraft for the Nazis, and they actually brought German engineers and researchers out of Germany.
When the war broke out the partnership dissolved and Goodyear started producing aircraft and synthetic rubber for the allies. They never reformed the partnership, so no laundering the business like coke and Fanta.
Beyond that, the zeppelin company and leadership was about as anti Nazi as you could be. The leadership at the time of their rise to power ended up being forced to share control with a fascist and was censored because he spoke against them.
Less relevant but still an interesting bit of trivia
Didn’t know that. Just had heard it was the same people who started the company.
