Jack Albrecht
1 min readMay 25, 2020

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The list of large multinationals and US mega-firms that have ties to the Nazis and other - even current - dictatorships is very long. Others have already made comments about that subject.

I'll just correct your German. "Fantastisch" means "fantastic." The word "Fantasie" is the German word for "Fantasy" and is pronounced almost the same in German. In German the "s" is pronounced like "z" and the inflection is on the third syllable.

Also a note on history. Coca-cola in Germany post WWII got a huge boost when Max Schmeling, the German boxer who shocked the world by knocking out Joe Louis in 1936, took over representation of the firm. Schmeling was not a Nazi, and nearly paid for that with his life. He was a German hero until his death at the very advanced age of 99 (2005). It is hard to overestimate how much having a hero like Schmeling as their rep in post WWII Germany meant to Coca-Cola.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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