Some old Guinness posters, that weren't used

Lovely Bloke

Take a look at these! Swastikas and everything!

gozunda

Very interesting if not reproductions or fake - there is a lot of made up Guiness signage and paraphernalia out there

Source?

irish_goat

gozunda wrote: »

Very interesting if not reproductions or fake - there is a lot of made up Guiness signage and paraphernalia out there

Source?

http://www.thejournal.ie/guinness-posters-nazi-germany-1275814-Jan2014/?r_dir_d=1

BeerNut

More here.

It's not that surprising really.

Ravelleman

If we look back far enough we will find that a significant amount of large, well-known companies were compromised not only by their associations with Nazi Germany and other authoritarian regimes, but also by the mere fact that they operated at all during this period.

The happy world of Haribo wasn't so happy for Jewish labourers, for example. Nor was Renault quite the symbol of patriotic French industry that it seemed. We all know the origins of Fanta too. That is just to cite the most obvious examples.

They're interesting posters from a stylistic point of view as well - quite the statement of Nazi modernity, though designed by an Irish company.

BeerNut

I wonder was Guinness planning to brew special Reinheitsgebot-compliant beer for the German market. I think I read somewhere that Guinness was instrumental in getting the exemption for imported beers which the EEC eventually forced on West Germany in the 1980s.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

I wonder was Guinness planning to brew special Reinheitsgebot-compliant beer for the German market. I think I read somewhere that Guinness was instrumental in getting the exemption for imported beers which the EEC eventually forced on West Germany in the 1980s.

They where using "Roasted malt" till the 1970's, so replace the flaked barley with malt and you have a compliant beer

BeerNut

Guinness began using roasted barley in 1929/1930 according to Martyn Cornell, based (I think) on the text of a visitors' guide to James's Gate. But even with the flaked barley you'd still have to brew a special recipe for export to Germany in 1936.

BaZmO*

Ravelleman wrote: »

If we look back far enough we will find that a significant amount of large, well-known companies were compromised not only by their associations with Nazi Germany and other authoritarian regimes, but also by the mere fact that they operated at all during this period.

The happy world of Haribo wasn't so happy for Jewish labourers, for example. Nor was Renault quite the symbol of patriotic French industry that it seemed. We all know the origins of Fanta too. That is just to cite the most obvious examples.

They're interesting posters from a stylistic point of view as well - quite the statement of Nazi modernity, though designed by an Irish company.

Henry Ford was also a Nazi sympathiser.