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Hugo Ferdinand Boss (8 July 1885 – 9 August 1948) [1] was a German businessman and an early member of the Nazi Party. He was the founder of the fashion house Hugo Boss AG. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931, and remained so until Nazi Germany's capitulation.
By 1940, the Nazi collaborators at Hugo Boss were pulling in some 1,000,000 Reichsmarks, compared to 200,000 Reichsmarks in 1936. It was then that the company began to use the slave labor of concentration camp victims in order to produce the large orders that they were receiving at that time.
The German fashion firm Hugo Boss apologises for its maltreatment of forced workers during World War II when it supplied the Nazi regime with uniforms.
Before Hugo Boss A.G. became known for classic men's suits and flashy ties, the clothing manufacturer made uniforms for the Nazis, a company spokeswoman acknowledged today.
Hugo Boss had opened a ready-made menswear store in 1923, joined the Nazi Party in 1931, and started making, though not designing, uniforms on government contracts soon after, eventually using forced labor - as did, it has to be said, many other menswear/uniform manufacturers.
In the early 1930s, Hugo Boss began to produce and supply military uniforms for the Nazi Germany government, resulting in a large boost in sales. [6] After World War II and the founder's death in 1948, Hugo Boss started to turn its focus to men's suits.
German fashion house Hugo Boss has apologized to people mistreated at a factory making uniforms during World War Two after revelations in a new book financed by the company.
The German clothing factory that eventually became the international menswear powerhouse Hugo Boss AG manufactured Nazi uniforms during World War II and most likely did so using slave...
The German fashion house Hugo Boss has apologized for mistreating forced labor at a uniform factory during World War II.
On Thursday, the fashion company issued a formal apology for its wartime record following the publication of a new book – one that they themselves commissioned-- which reveals new details of their Nazi past.