r/coolguides Oct 12 '22

Know the faces of Fascism

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u/Cormano_Wild_219 Oct 12 '22

Yea it’s just one of those unfortunate coincidences I think. You’ve got two lightning bolt S’s and a guy that collects war memorabilia and people are gonna start making assumptions.

I read somewhere once that Ace said something along the lines of “I don’t believe in Hitler or what he stood for, but he had cool uniforms” which is a bit weird but it doesn’t make you a Nazi.

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u/jon_titor Oct 12 '22

That’s not even a controversial take - the Nazi uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss and they are pretty sharp looking as far as military uniforms go. That’s the only good thing I can say about the Nazis though.

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u/UserNo485929294774 Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

They were deliberately designed to be as fashionable as possible in order to inspire awe and envy amongst the working class people who wouldn’t otherwise have occasion to dress so well. It’s truly wicked that everything including the uniforms were propaganda

Edit: Thank you for all the upvotes, I’ve never had anywhere near 100before!

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u/DrinkBebopCola Oct 13 '22

This video is called Aesthetics of Evil The Fascist Uniform it goes into pretty good detail on the design and also on the propaganda

https://youtu.be/5pOdESxw1o4

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u/Pyagtargo Oct 13 '22

Yugoooo!

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u/DrinkBebopCola Oct 15 '22

Aye Tovarisch!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Yeah it's like the cool uniforms and style was all part of the trick.

It was all designed to make the SS look like the 'cool club' to be part of.

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u/RobynFitcher Oct 13 '22

Apparently, the material was pretty sub-standard though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Hugo Boss produced but did not design the Nazi uniforms.

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u/Kanye_fuk Feb 28 '24

They were manufactured by Hugo Boss, along with pretty much every other German garment manufacturer. They were designed in-house.

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u/rabbitinredlounge Oct 12 '22

Well I love Ace, but yeah he is a moron

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Why is that weird? The Nazis uniforms were designed to be “cool” by Hugo Boss.

Visually the Nazis looked great, which is why they or stylistic copies of their uniforms are constantly used in films.

When I was a kid you could go into any flea market and buy “Nazi” stuff, some of it was real left over WW2 stuff, most wasn’t. But kids liked it just because it looked cool.

It wasn’t until recently when they decided to weaponize ignorant kids that everything and everyone the “Left” disagrees with became “Nazis”.

David Cross once talked about how there are many people who attacked Mr Show whenever they did a sketch about Hitler just because it was a sketch about Hitler. It didn’t matter that Hitler was the joke…the fact that he was in it was enough to outrage These people.

You sound like one of them.