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'Hitler's Tailor' Hugo Boss apologises for using slave labour

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2040943/Hitlers-Tailor-Hugo-Boss-apologises-using-slave-labour-make-Nazi-uniforms.html

German fashion house Hugo Boss always tried to brush over its links to the Nazis. But now it is finally confronting the issue face on.
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Boss made and designed most if not all of the German uniforms.
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So thats why they had that cool look
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Man! That Jacket is BOSS!

LOVE IT!. :D
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I had no idea! Thanks for the article.

I know the Italians had some top end designers also.
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