Nazi Uniform Essay

Nazi Uniforms: There are Good and Bad Intentions Uniforms can do many things. When people see someone wearing a military uniform, they can simply make an assumption that they have and/or will fight in battle. For some, when people need help in Walmart, they automatically look for someone in a blue uniform and ask them their question. Uniforms are also used to symbolize groups such as a baseball team. Those are just a few good ways that uniforms have been used. Nazis on the other hand, used the to symbolize that they had power and made people feel out of the ordinary. Hugo Boss, the one who made the Nazis uniforms, was born on July 8, 1885. He founded his own clothing company in 1923. A year later he turned that into factory(contributors). Hugo Boss joined the Nazi party in 1931, that two years before Hitler's dictatorship(Contributors). The Hugo Boss foundation …show more content…
In 1950, the company received its first order for men's suits, resulting in an expansion to 150 employees by the end of the year(Wikipedia). By 1960, the company was producing off-the-peg suits. In 1969, Eugen retired, giving ownership of the company to his sons Jochen and Uwe, who began international development. The company is still growing, even today(Wikipedia). Enough about the production of their uniforms, let's talk about the uniforms themselves. The M40 uniform was the first design change in the standard army uniform(contributors). It differed from the M36 only in the substitution of feldgrau for the bottle green collar and shoulder strap, which began to be phased out in 1938/39, though most combat examples show this variation appearing in 1940, hence the unofficial M40 pattern(contributors). The troops liked the older green collars, and M40 (and later) tunics modified with salvaged M36 collars or bottle-green collar overlays are not