When one invites Russell Brand to an awards ceremony, one should expect to have their sponsor's Nazi ties rehashed in public by Russell Brand.

GQ UK apparently didn't get that memo, and decided to present the Brit-com with the Oracle Award at last week's GQ Men of the Year Awards, sponsored by erstwhile Nazi tailor Hugo Boss.

"Any of you who know a little bit about history and fashion will know that Hugo Boss made the uniforms for the Nazis," Brand told a sideswiped audience at London's Royal Opera House. "The Nazis did have flaws, but, you know, they did look fucking fantastic, let's face it, while they were killing people on the basis of their religion and sexuality."

The true story of Hugo Boss, his firm and its relationship with the Nazis, is rather less straightforward than Russell Brand would have it.
He certainly did not design the SS uniforms, though he did produce them. It is, however, shameful that Boss, like so many other manufacturers, used forced labourers from occupied countries.
Ultimately, Boss was not an evil man, but he did not do enough to stop evil happening.
That is an important distinction and may not be one appreciated by a man as unsubtle as Russell Brand.

In 2009, Walters published Hunting Evil, a history of how the Nazi war criminals escaped after the war, and how they were brought to justice. In October 2007, as part of his research for the book, Walters attempted to visit the alleged Nazi war criminal Erna Wallisch at her flat in Vienna, Austria. Wallisch, a former concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek, was the seventh most wanted person on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of suspected war criminals from the Second World War. Wallisch refused to talk to Walters.[1]
"Frustrated at the enormous amount of junk history around, Guy sees it as his personal mission to wage war on ignorance and misconceptions about the past." [2] Writing in the Daily Mail Walters has raised questions regarding the veracity of Denis Avey's claims to have smuggled himself into Auschwitz[3][4] and about fraudulent Holocaust memoirs generally,[5] and has questioned the level of acclaim given to Mary Seacole [6]

So I was looking into the author Guy Walters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Walters

And he wrote this weirdness for the Grundiad

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/m...is-lit-olympic-flame