21 September 2011
Last updated at 16:48 GMT
Hugo Boss apology for Nazi past as book is published
Hugo Boss supplied uniforms to both the party and armed forces
The
German fashion firm Hugo Boss has apologised for its maltreatment of
forced workers during World War II when it supplied the Nazis with
uniforms.
It issued the apology to coincide with the publication of a
new history of the company during the Hitler years, which it
commissioned itself.
Its factory used 140 Polish and 40 French forced workers.
The book concludes that company founder Hugo Boss, whose past is already well documented, was a loyal Nazi.
"It is clear that Hugo F Boss did not only join the party
because it led to contracts for uniform production, but also because he
was a follower of National Socialism," wrote the author, Roman Koester,
an economic historian at the Bundeswehr (English: German army)
University in Munich.
Both Mr Koester and the company insist that it had no influence over the contents of the book, although it provided the funding.
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