Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Brian Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote >> You mean that the photo of that van was taken in 1912? You are FOS! :-) > > No, I mean that the Swastika Laundry was founded in 1912 and started using > that logo in 1912. >They weren't happy that the Nazis stole their logo, > but they weren't about to rebrand their >company just because some distant > lunatic started abusing their image. Amazingly enough there is a strong possibility that the swastika logo and colouring were influenced by this very laundry business in that Adolf Hitler visited his brother Alois and his Irish wife Bridget (nee Dowling) in Liverpool in 1912/1913. Incidentally, Alois & his wife had met in Dublin some years earlier. As there was a regular steamer to Dublin from Liverpool twice daily, it is not impossible that he came across the original horse drawn delivery vans of the Swastika Laundry on a visit to Dublin. Indeed Ireland also features in the life of a former schoolmate of Adolf's - the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who was both gay and jewish and a couple of years older than Adolf. Did Wittgenstein do something at that school in Linz that influenced Hitler's future hatreds? Douglas _________ Douglas Barry Bray, Co. Wicklow Republic of Ireland