by John Galt » Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:33 pm
hugo boss, the company, apologized in 2013 for using slave labor for making all those fabulous uniforms. about 180 people were all it took to make them. previously in 1999 they put about 1 million into an account, along with about 5 billion other dollars from other german companies and the german government, to compensate slave laborers.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/18/world ... rkers.html hugo boss himself was fined 100,000 DM and stripped of his voting rights in 1946
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