The major clothing designer whose fashions once struck terror across Europe

 Hugo Boss today     

 

Hugo Boss AG is a German luxury fashion and style house based in Metzingen, Germany. It is named after its founder, Hugo Boss (1885–1948).   "Though he claimed in a 1934/1935 advertising that he had been a "supplier for National Socialist uniforms since 1924", such supplies are probable since 1928/1929 and certain since 1934, when he became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung, Schutzstaffel, Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps, and other party organizations."

And the company's management during the late 30s to the end of the war used slave laborers. 

 

One attraction of the NAZI Party then and even now was the sheer elegance of their uniforms.

 

"According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were "avowed Nazis", "the Boss were all great admirers of Adolf Hitler", and Hugo Boss himself had in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler taken in the latter's Obersalzberg" 

Even American comic books liked to put the good guys into Boss-styled uniforms.
Like this:  "Clad in matching blue and black uniforms (with Blackhawk himself boasting a hawk insignia on his chest), early stories pitted the team against the Axis powers..."

These uniforms were and are uber-cool. The team members all came from assorted Nazi-occupied countries.