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03-25-2011, 12:44 AM
#441
Re: Muetzenfabrik
by
BenVK
I need some frischluft, too many thoughts running through my tiny brain tonight!
Have a look at this articule FB. I'd love to know what is being said about us Brits!
I shall do. I am glad you think out loud and share it with us. After Jews, the next target in UM is the British, actually.
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03-25-2011 12:44 AM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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03-25-2011, 03:40 AM
#442
Re: Muetzenfabrik
by
BenVK
I need some frischluft, too many thoughts running through my tiny brain tonight!
Have a look at this articule FB. I'd love to know what is being said about us Brits!
The article is a few weeks before the war began, and comprises an analysis of the technique of British uniform adverts of such well known firms as Wilkinson sword, Gieves and Burberry's. The analysis of adverts was a major theme in UM, but in the German case, no large private public relations organizations existed to carry out such advertising. Such was not the case in the Anglo Saxon countries which invented modern advertising and public relations, as Glenn Beck reminds us nowadays. The article admires how the British carry off the advertisements. Apparently in Germany there were restrictions on depictions of soldiers in advertising, likely for ideological reasons. Restrictions existed on images of soldiers, granted their almost holy status and also the aversion to making a profit from state and party institutions. The author admires the British adverts, but then also make the jab that German advertising in surely good enough and one has no need to imitate foreigners. This is also typical of Nazi Germany, in which the outside world comes under scrutiny and even admiration, and then one reverts to the party line. Once the war starts, the UM articles are very anti British.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 03-25-2011 at 04:35 AM.
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03-25-2011, 03:49 AM
#443
Re: Muetzenfabrik
by
stonemint
Interesting how he gets 11 pages. He must have been very well-connected. While his hats are ok, I do not put them in the top 10.
The article is not about Hoffmann's firm or its products at all, but about the symbolic meaning of the cap in a cosmos of uniforms in the Nazi state and this man's role in the commercial association of cap makers in the political economy of the Weimar Republic and especially in the case of the III. Reich. It is in the same vein as a series of articles in the years about 1936-1939 on this subject and highly revealing. Hoffmann was plainly a leading figure-- well before the advent of Hitler--as a business man of his era, and he was also a Nazi of an early date, as well. He is referred to as Pg Hoffmann, that is Parteigenosse Hoffmann. Parteigenosse as in NSDAP.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 03-25-2011 at 04:30 AM.
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03-25-2011, 05:44 PM
#444
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03-25-2011, 07:23 PM
#445
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03-25-2011, 07:30 PM
#446
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03-25-2011, 09:42 PM
#447
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03-25-2011, 09:50 PM
#448
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03-26-2011, 06:47 PM
#449
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03-26-2011, 06:49 PM
#450
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