[Leica] Swastika Laundry

[Neil.Beddoe at mbamfunds.com (Neil Beddoe)]

Hitler never went to Liverpool.  It's a myth perpetrated by Alois Hitler's 
wife Bridget.

Sir Ian Kershaw :  "There is actually an eye witness to Adolf Hitler's 
presence in the men's home in Vienna in February 1913 at a time when he is 
supposed to be in Liverpool. Beyond that, the records kept by the men's home 
were very careful records and they recorded when people were residents and 
when they left. Adolf Hitler did actually leave the men's home just for a 
few days and they recorded his departure and his return in May 1913 when he 
left to go to Munich. They again registered his departure. Since the records 
are so carefully kept, they would unquestionably have recorded a departure 
of his in 1912 had he been going to Liverpool. What a wonderful surreal 
image to think of Hitler standing on the terraces at Anfield, but there 
isn't a grain of truth in the story." 



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From: lug-bounces+neil.beddoe=mbamfunds.com at leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+neil.beddoe=mbamfunds.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of Douglas Barry
Sent: 03 July 2009 00:50
To: Leica Users Group
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
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Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland 


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