[Leica] Swastika Laundry

[ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben Blædel - Forlaget Rhodos)]

Carlsberg used the swastika as part of their logo from late 19th century til 
about the beginning of ww2

http://img401.imageshack.us/i/carlsberg.jpg/][IMG]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9454/carlsberg.th.jpg
http://www.123hjemmeside.dk/carlsberg-etiketter/5889264

regards

ruben


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Swastika Laundry


> "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
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