• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Coca Cola promoted itself as the true patriotic, German Nazi drink in the Third Reich and was a major sponsor of the olympic games in Berlin. They continued to promote themselves as Führer loving nationalists with swasticas on their ads until the very moment the US government sanctioned Germany. It worked so well most Germans were convinced it was a German product up until the end of the war when American Soldiers turned up with buttloads of that stuff while Germany has been cut off from it for years at that point. Playing both sides worked fabulously for Coke and many other companies so they will keep doing it.