Thor Steinar: fashionable German Neo-Nazi clothing? WTF

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Thor Steinar is a German clothing brand manufactured by Thor Steinar Mediatex GmbH, a subsidiary of International Brands General Trading, a Dubai-based company.

In Germany, the brand is closely associated to neo-nazism by the Verfassungschutz of the state of Brandenburg.[1] In German media, the brand is most often discussed in the light of this association. Wearing Thor Steinar clothes is expressly forbidden in the Bundestag, in the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and of Saxony and in several football stadiums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Steinar

I was surfing the internet, generally looking at German stuff in anticipation of going there one day. I came across this phenomena and thought I would share just because it is odd. Any Germans or others who live there know how big a deal this is?

Here are some examples of their products, not what one usually associates with neo- Nazis






But here is there logo



And here are some far right legislators being removed from a local assembly for wearing the stuff:

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1. kicking for visibility nt

[MrScorpio]

2. Herr Hugo Boss, were he still alive, would be proud as fuck

At least we know what today's fascistic fashionista is sporting.

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3. didn't Boss design the SS uniforms ? nt

[steve2470]

8. according to Wiki his company produced them but I didn't see anything about designing them nt

[LeftyMom]

4. A lifestyle brand for the fashionable fascist?

[Nobody You Know]

5. That logo has Aryan Nations symbolism on it.

It should be banned everywhere, and this Steiner guy in prison and properly educated about the Holocaust.

Just sayin' from a second generation removed from the Holocaust.

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6. I believe the logo I posted has been banned in Germany because it so resemble the SS.

But get this they recently opened an outlet store named after Brevik (the nut that shot all those kids) they claim it is named for a town of the same name but that is bullshit.

[slor]

10. It is in part, the wolfsangel, used by the 2nd ss panzer div. das reich. Nt

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11. from the wiki article

Since the inception of Thor Steinar, the company has used two logos. Much of the controversy regarding the clothing label revolves around their first logo, featuring a combination of a *tiwaz rune and a *sowilo rune: the runes were so combined that a part of the logo became very similar to the insignia of the Schutzstaffel. The manufacturers of the Thor Steinar brand rejected this interpretation of the former logo.[3] Their second logo is a Gyfu rune, similar in appearance to aSaltire, and has not caused controversy.

[Luminous Animal]

13. You do understand that imprisoned and properly educated are fascist concepts, don't you?

[Nobody You Know]

14. Fascist sure.

But it's very appropriate for their fascism behavior. Fascism vs forced fascism. Beautiful.

[Luminous Animal]

15. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

[Nobody You Know]

16. Sometimes, an eye for an eye is the answer.

Those people never learn a damn thing about their past and repeat their mistakes. We just find them easy to spot and very insulting.

[El_Johns]

7. A claque of right-wing German parlimentarians was expelled for wearing it -- an apparently planned

provocation.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159169/Far-Right-lawmakers-expelled-parliament-Saxony-Germany-wearing-Thor-Steinar-clothing-label-favoured-neo-Nazis.html

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9. isn't it interesting

How mainstream the clothing (even stylish in some cases) looks until you know the story and get a look at the logo. I have always associated neo nazis with combat boots with wite laces and shaved heads. Now they are going for the GQ look.

[LeftyMom]

12. It's odd how many of those logos are in English.

The woman in the foreground's shirt is in German and the guy behind her's shirt is in runes spelling out German words but the two guys to the side are wearing shirts where everything is written out in English.

I'm not even sure what that means or if that means anything (a lot of overseas clothing brands print shirts with usually very bad English on them, after all) but it's strange. You'd think a neo-Nazi label wouldn't use the language of the people who defeated the Nazis. Seems like that would be a sore point.

[Behind the Aegis]

17. unsurprising and on a related note:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024240928 ( Mosby)

quenelle in action....







Some things always come back into fashion, too bad it wasn't something as horrific as bell bottoms.

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18. unfucking believable

Well I guess it is very believable