I'm listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk. The Second World War podcast with me,

Al Murray.

And me, James Holland. And as usual, we're doing some regulars. We've got our World War

2 thing.

Yep. And we've got our World War 2 stuff and some exciting things that we're going to

be looking at a very, very interesting weapon that you own out.

Yes.

And we're all going to be delving into a kind of dark and probably depressing story from

Northern Italy, but really, really interesting too, and unknown. But that's all we've got

a question from John. And John wants to know, is it true that Hugo Boss designed Nazi

uniforms? It's a bit of an old chest armor.

Well, yeah. And because if you put, did you know, Hugo Boss designed Nazi uniforms into

Google, up comes basically a load of illustrations taken from kind of the Osprey publishing or

anyone who, you know, I mean, it really looks like a sort of James Book of Nazis illustration,

which is 1934 Hugo Boss collection. And it's pictures of, you know, it's pictures of

him, Lauren, various people and and bridges and lots of leather, lots of leather, SS, lots

of black, yeah, I'm a bit of piping on on on the classic, the classic high uniform look

really more than else. So the tailored uniform look. And of course, is this, but you know,

and Russell Brandt, famous at a GQ Awards a few years ago, got up and had to go, Hugo

Boss for like, for design, no, is this true?

No. No, it's not. It's absolutely nonsense. So Hugo Boss never designed

anything until after the war. And I think it was his son who took on the business,

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