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The blockade of ingredients to Nazi Germany led Coca Cola to throw away whey and apple pulp

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When you open a Fanta, you hardly think about World War II. However, this fruit-flavored drink was born in 1940 within Nazi Germany. It was a solution from Coca-Cola, owner of the brand, to the blockade of ingredients that the allies imposed on the country. Quite a commercial turn that would result in one of the company’s most popular drinks. To block. In September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland and the United Kingdom and France declared war on the Third Reich, the economic consequences spread far beyond the battle fronts. American multinationals that maintained industrial ties with German territory saw communication with their subsidiaries interrupted. The British naval blockade closed the ports; Trade with the United States, which had grown throughout the previous decade, stopped. The Coca-Cola situation. The company had been operating in Germany since 1929. Max Keith was a German manager who had assumed control of the subsidiary and built a giant infrastructure from scratch with bottling plants and distribution networks. He had even managed to produce on his own seven of the nine secret ingredients. But the concentrated syrup traveled to Germany from Atlanta, headquarters of Coca-Cola. When the embargo cut off that supply, the plants ground to a halt. The alternative was closure, but Keith did not give in. The remains. What he did was look for substitutes in what he had at hand, waste from other food industries. How did I count? expert Mark Pendergrast“what was left of what was left”: whey, a byproduct of cheese making; leftover apple pulp from cider presses; fruit peels; beet sugar, because cane sugar was a luxury… the resulting liquid was a brownish yellow, much less sweet than any modern soft drink, and its flavor changed from batch to batch depending on what ingredients were available. A name. Keith gathered his team to name the drink. He asked them to use their imagination, Fantasy. And from there the name came directly, with the advantage that it worked in almost any language without the need for translation or phonetic adaptation. It was an immediate success: in 1943 Coca-Cola sold approximately three million cases of Fanta in Germany. AND although the soft drink never had a direct connection with the NazisKeith did manage to integrate his advertising into the regime’s events, including the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In fact, he could have registered Fanta in his own name, but he did not do so. A success. Fanta was not drunk solely as a soft drink. Sugar rationing was so severe in wartime Germany that in many German homes it was used for sweeten soups and stews. Keith had obtained a partial exemption from sugar rationing in 1941, making it not only a soft drink, but also an accessible sweetener. It was not an isolated case. Fanta was not a rarity. The World War II food industry reformulated several products forced by embargoes and rationing. Nescafé, launched in 1938arose from the need to dispose of surplus Brazilian coffee at a time of commercial crisis: its soluble format allowed it to be distributed under difficult logistical conditions, and it became a standard supply for the American army. Margarine was a substitute for butter in times of Napoleonic shortages, and experienced a second massive expansion in Europe in the 1940s because butter was rationed. Post-war. When Coca-Cola relaunched Fanta in Naples in April 1955 with an orange formula made from local citrus, the name was the only thing connecting it to post-war Germany. The Italian company SNIBEG had developed the recipe on its own and Coca-Cola bought itgiving it the name of the one who already had the intellectual property. From there it grew: it arrived in the United States in 1958 and expanded globally throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Conflictive spot. However, the drink’s German past loomed large over the brand in 2015, when Coca-Cola launched a special edition in Germany for Fanta’s 75th anniversary. It was a reissue of the original recipe, with 30% whey and apple extract, distributed in glass bottles that evoked the design of the 1940s. He video campaign was especially inappropriatesince he only talked about ingenuity in times of scarcity and ignored the reason for that ingenuity: war embargoes against Nazi Germany. He concluded by inviting viewers to recover “the feeling of the good old days.” The video was removed after frontal rejection by the public and press. It was inevitable then to remember brands like Volkswagenwhose name directly alludes to the Nazi regime’s automotive program and whose plants used forced labor during the war; or like Hugo Bosswhich made military uniforms for the SS and Wehrmacht; or as the German subsidiary of IBM, Dehomagwhich provided the regime with punch card technology that allowed entire populations to be censused, classified, and tracked with a speed that manual methods made impossible. Origins that are sometimes murky due to the context, but that leave a few questions in the air about the inhumane role of any industry. Which includes the sparks of life. Header | Wikipedia

The Maginot line defended Europe from the Nazi invasion. History is being repeated by Russia, but now it is not just concrete

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The Maginot line It was a monumental but rigid wall initiated by France, so much, which was dodged in 1940 by the Wehrmacht through the Ardenas. Perhaps for this reason, today’s Europe assumes that no defense line can totally shield its borders, but it can channel and delay an invasion, while determining Moscow to undertake it. The crucial difference is that this time it is not just concrete. The return of an iron curtain. Eighty years after Churchill will proclaim That a “steel curtain” had fallen over Europe, the metaphor It is reversed: Now it is the western countries that raise walls, ditches and defense systems on their eastern borders. The erosion of the Security Framework after the Cold War, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the perception that Moscow could redirect strength towards the Baltic or Finland countries They have triggered a vast fortification program reminiscent of the great defensive projects of the twentieth century, although with XXI technologies. The beginning. We have coming counting. From the Finnish Lapia to the Polish province of Lublin, Europe prepares to build a new “iron curtain”, but this time not ideology, but of steel and explosives. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, guardians of more than 3,400 kilometers of border with Russia and Belarus, have decided abandon The Ottawa Convention of 1997, which will allow them since the late 2025 to manufacture, store and deploy millions of antipersone and anti -tank mines. The measure, considered unthinkable just two decades ago, responds to the conviction that only one lethal and deterrence obstacle It can stop an eventual Russian offensive in a moment of maximum tension in the NATO eastern flank. Remains of the Maginot Line The end of a consensus. The decision is a drastic turn against international efforts that, from the 1990s, with figures ranging from Princess Diana to Tony Blair as driversThey sought to eradicate land mines due to their indiscriminate character and their devastating effect on civilians long after conflicts. That humanitarian ideal, translated into a treaty signed by 164 countries, now fades before the Russian threat, which never joined the agreement and today accumulates More than 26 million minesmassively used in Ukraine. The perception in Eastern Europe is clear: prohibiting them was a luxury of safe times; Today, national survival It demands to recover them. The epicenter: Lithuania. The most dramatic case is that of Lithuania, which must Defend 720 kilometers of border with Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, including the strategic Suwalki runneronly land step for NATO reinforcements towards Baltic countries. There, in villages as Šadžiūnaibarely inhabited by the elderly who remember the devastation of World War II, the inhabitants fear that their pine and birch forests, already surrounded by fences and border stalls, soon become mined fields. The contrast between rural life and imminence of a war scenario summarizes the Decision rawness. Europe divided by the original “curtain” of Churchill. NATO countries in Azul, the members of the Warsaw Pact in red, those not aligned in green and neutral gray countries (1988) Total defense and strategic urgency. Vilna plans to spend the 5.5% of your GDP In defense (more than double the United Kingdom) and has already reserved 800 million euros to produce hundreds of thousands of mines of all kinds. These will be integrated into a “counter -river” strategy that also includes dragon teeth, ditches, armed drones and long -range artillery. Lithuanian leaders, such as Defense Minister Dovile Šakalienė and her predecessor Laurynas Kasčiūnas, They argue That history shows that Russia only respects strength, and that the experience of Ukraine, which destroyed its arsenals by the treaty and today suffers millions of Russian mines in its territory, is an impossible warning to ignore. The closure of the most extensive border. With 1,340 kilometers of shared border, Finland approved the construction in 2023 of a fence that will cover 15% of its border territory, with a cost of more than 400 million dollars and completed completion for 2026. There is a nuance here: not only seeks to stop hypothetical Russian incursions, but also control the flow of citizens fleeing the conscription. The new walls and positions, even in Remote Arctic AreasThey replace the old wooden fences that only served to contain cattle, and mark a symbolic turn on a relatively permeable border. The Balkan effort. Already We tell it. Estonia was a pioneer In 2015 After the Russian annexation of Crimea, and since 2024, the three Baltic states with Poland advance in a joint fortification plan of 700 kilometers, budgeted in more than 2,000 million pounds. The measures include Anti -tanks, concrete dragon teeth, pyramids and blocks of several tons, blocked roads, mines, bridges prepared to fly and trees destined to collapse in case of invasion. In addition, more than 1,000 bunkers and deposits for ammunition and supplies are built, small but capable of resisting artillery fire and hosting squads of up to ten soldiers. In parallel, Poland builds a permanent fence Against Belarusconsidered the main ally of Moscow. Human impact and contradictions. The paradox is evident: it seeks to protect populations from a Russian aggression at the price of introduce weapons They have historically caused most of their victims among civilians, including children. In 2023, more than 2,000 people died in the world due to explosives of this type, often in countries where wars ended decades ago. Baltic governments promise that the mines will remain in deposits and will be activated only in case of emergency, with modern systems that allow to assemble them and disassemble them at a distance. However, families such as Jurate Penkovskiene, who already cava bunkers in his garden while listening to the rumble of NATO exercises, fear for security of their children if their forests become prohibited areas. The new European border. Thus, what is at stake is not only a military change, but a landscape transformation and collective psychology in Eastern Europe. Forests, lakes and border villages aim to be part of a defensive system … Read more

Argentina has sought in the basement of the Supreme Court and something very Argentine has been found: Nazi material

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Argentina has maintained a somewhat complex relationship with the legacy of Nazism. During World War II, the country adopted a Neutrality position that allowed him to maintain “mixed” diplomatic ties, although he also took measures to stop the Nazi propaganda in his territory. However, after the conflict, the nation He became a refuge of numerous leaders and collaborators of the Nazi regime that fled from Europe, many With false documentation and under the protection of clandestine networks. Today, more than half a century later, someone has found another thread with Nazism … in the catacombs of the Supreme Court. An accidental finding. In the basement of the Supreme Court of Argentina, while organizations were carried out for the creation of an institutional museum, the operators randomly with something strange, several forgotten boxes for more than eighty years. The content, however, turned out to be an unexpected historical weight: notebooks stamped with Spastics, Nazi propaganda and other documents of the third Reich destined to disseminate the ideology of Adolf Hitler in Argentina in full boom of World War II. The finding, confirmed by the Supreme Court itself In a statementhighlighted the potential relevance of the materials to clarify episodes linked to the holocaust. In a recent ceremony, researchers, officials and representatives of the Argentine Jewish community formally opened part of the content, which includes thousands of red notebooks with Nazi symbols and registers of names and addresses that could correspond to members of the National Socialist Party outside Germany. The shipment that did not achieve its mission. Apparently, preliminary investigation allowed to track the origin of the boxes until the German embassy in Tokyospace from which it was sent to Buenos Aires on the Japanese ship Nan-A-Maru on June 20, 1941, when Argentina maintained a neutrality posture formal in the global conflict. The cargo was declared as personal effects by German diplomats in order to overcome customs controls. However, the Argentine authorities They detected their content And, concerned about the political implications of admitting Nazi propaganda, they sent the matter to the then Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú. In August of that same year, Argentine officials opened some of the boxes and confirmed their propaganda character. Despite the German request that they were returned, a federal judge ordered his seizure and the transfer of the file to the Supreme Court, a space where the materials were archived and forgotten for decades. Argentine context in Nazism. We already said it at the beginning. Although the subsequent history made Argentina one of the more noticeable shelters Nazis and war criminals after the fall of the third Reich, the discovery of these boxes sheds new light on the efforts (previous and during the country’s conflict) to curb the ideological and organizational infiltration of national socialism. Already in 1939, the Argentine Attorney General had declared illegal and unconstitutional The activities of the local Nazi party, pointing them as an affront to national sovereignty. Likewise, it was forbidden that members of the German Nazi party access Argentine citizenship, showing an early will to cut any formal roots channel of the roots of the Hitlerism In the country. A time capsule. He counted In the New York Times Jonathan Karszenbaum, director of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, that the volume of the documents found is overwhelming. Although the entire content has not yet been examined, the thorough analysis of the notebooks is expected to provide concrete clues about The network of supporters and Nazi operators in Latin America during the war. The most disturbing question, however, is how and why This material remained hidden for more than eighty years in the heart of the Argentine Judiciary, a key institution of the Republic. The rediscovery, with all its symbolism, raises a unique opportunity to clarify dark chapters of the country’s history and reaffirm an institutional commitment to truth, memory and justice. Image | Supreme Court of Argentina In Xataka | The crazy theory that states that Hitler escaped Argentina via Galicia: from a plane in Lugo to a submarine in Vigo In Xataka | Pederastia, bratwurst and jacuzzis: so it was and so is today the secret exile of the Nazis in Latin America

Internet has been trying to locate Granada places that come out in a prohibited film starring a Nazi

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“A film full of humanity without any trend.” With that overprinting phrase on the screen it starts ‘Solange du Lebst’. A “neither right -wing” manual “that, however, hides a Nazi propaganda film that did not come to be seen in Spain but, surprisingly, in Germans after World War II, where he unleashed a considerable scandal. Today is completely missing. ‘Solange du Lebst’ (in Spanish it could be translated by ‘While you live’) is the closest thing to a cursed film mixture and, at the same time, purely, propaganda. We are facing una movie comparable to which both sides of the war rolled In large quantities, each favoring yours. Those of the allied side are better known, since Hollywood He launched all his machinery so that even non -war movies such as the Westerns or the suspense cinema would insufferate the ideology that the allies were interested in propagating. On the Nazi side the Fiction and propaganda films They are less popular, however much documentaries such as ‘The triumph of the will’ have gone down in the history of cinema for the power of the propaganda imagery of Goebbels, which produced 1200 films, Many of them prohibited for decades. But films like ‘El Arrow Quex’, ‘I wait for you’, ‘President Krüger’ or ‘Kolberg’ were not as well known as their American counterparts due to their low film quality. In Spain, in fact, the laughible ‘race’, the milestone of Franco’s fiction code, than any of these. That is why it is not strange that it has not been heard about ‘Solange du Lebst’, that did not premiere in Spain and was barely seen in Germany. The producer, Eva Films (we are not going to get Nazi connotations in every detail, but well, there is the name of the producer, which she shares with that of Hitler’s couple) premiered it thanks to subterfuges as the aforementioned initial message. However, the daring to reach German screens After the Nazi defeatwhen the nation faced global ignonymy and a feeling of guilt, the country ranked, it resulted in a considerable box office failure that ruined the producer. The film disappeared from the rooms and never broadcast on television. Occasionally it has reappeared in very limited circuits, such as when it was published inadvertently in a collection of DVDs in Spain, ‘jewels of the history of cinema’. FTW Condor Legion In ‘Solange du Lebst’, a heroic and handsome pilot of the Condor Legion, the Air Force that Hitler sent to Spain to help Franco in the Civil warshe crashes into the fictional Andalusian town of Torralbán. There he will live a caste and sincere relationship with his caregiver while he remains injured and hidden in a cave, facing the fearsome international brigades who want to invade Spain and the wild Republicans who patrol the area. The film (which you can see complete, yes, in German, in the video on these lines), despite appearances, it is not a series B shot under co -production. There is a considerable media slack where, in addition, several names that would later be known internationally. The director and screenwriter Harald Reinl has an extensive filmography that arrives until 1982 and where there are from war dramas to family comedies, through ufological documentaries or literary adaptations of the classic mystery writer Edgar Wallace. The leading actress, Marianne Koch, would reach some international fame with Westerns as ‘for a handful of dollars’. The scarce scope of the film has not even given margin as to become a cult film, but its atmosphere in Spain has raised the curiosity of experts … and the locals. As The ideal newspaper accounttwo scholars carry Three years trying to unravel the mysteries of ‘Solange du Lebst’: They are Julio Grosso, professor of audiovisual communication at the University of Granada and Ralf Junkerjürgen, researcher at the University of Ratisbona. Together they decided to try which areas belonged to the locations of the film. To do this, they have been publishing in social networks photograms of the lost film and thanks to the collaboration of Internet users have located areas of Granada such as Los Arenales del Trevenque where the pilot, the old clinical hospital in San Cecilio, the Armilla Air Base, the Tablate bridge, the old road of Güéjar Sierra and El Castillo de Lácha. Purely Spanish areas that, however, did not prevent the film from being released in Spain. Why that unusual destiny? Although his argument left no doubt about his political orientation, neither this nor its atmosphere helped the film to be released in Spain. A possible reason, despite the fact that the Franco dictatorship was completely settled, is that In 1955 the regime was not interested in digging up old ghosts. The pacts of Madrid between Spain and the United States They had just signed in 1953and he was ending the international isolation to which he had submitted to the country. The last thing that interested Franco was his little Nazi propaganda. No matter how well photographed that Granada was. In Xataka | In anemic times for the box office, Spanish cinema has a hope on the horizon: the new ‘torrent’

After doing the Nazi greeting, Elon Musk has decided to get close to alternative for Germany

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With the Nazi greeting That Elon Musk dedicated to the Republican voters during the investiture of Donald Trump, the billionaire has returned (better than present) to the candlestick in an alternative rally for Germany at the gates of the German elections. The millionaire intervened through video call In one of the main acts of the electoral campaign of the alternative ultra -right party for Germany (AFD), in which the millionaire said Germany was doing “too much emphasis on past guilt. Germany’s children should not be guilty of the sins of his parents, much less of his grandparents. “ After the American campaign, it plays Europe. The increase in Elon Musk’s fortune After Donald Trump’s victory and its subsequent decreesthey are testimony that Musk’s political and economic interests They walk hand in hand. Once its position is consolidated near power in the United States, the millionaire seeks to increase its influence in Europe, where Musk also has important economic interests to defend. After having The pre -campaign heated Electoral attacking against the political leaders of Europe, the United Kingdom and, of course, Germany, Elon Musk has sneaked into the screen of the German elections with a live intervention in a rally of the German ultra -right. Musk message to the Germans. In his live speech at the AFD act, the Millionaire harangued the attendees with proclamations on “the greatness of the German nation” and his “thousands of years” empire, who raised controversy for the content and tone of their speech , criticizing “a multiculturalism that dilutes everything”, as the German Spiegel said. Musk pointed to the followers of the AFD present that they should “be proud to be Germans”, and then ensure that “it points too much to the fault of the past, that is something that must be left behind”, in clear allusion to responsibility of Nazi Germany in the Holocaust. The Millionaire also did not hesitate the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of “Ignorant Zoquete” and “Pellee”. Auschwitz’s 80th anniversary reactions. The words pronounced by Elon Musk before the voters of the German ultra -right and, especially their tone, have raised blisters in Poland, where the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz concentration camp is celebrated by the Soviet troops. The reactions of the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk did not wait and, from Your X profilehe responded to the words of the tycoon. “The words we hear from the protagonists of the AFD’s demonstration about” Great Germany “and the” need to forget German guilt for Nazis crimes “sounded too familiar and sidesested. Above all, a few hours after the anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, “wrote the Polish prime minister. His German counterpart He replied“I can’t agree more, dear Donald.” AFD’s proposal. The electoral proposal of the ultra -right party is practically a tracing of what Trump proposed in his program, betting on greater antieuropeistic nationalism, deregularization of the labor market, tax decrease for companies and deregularization of the energy market, as well as an related immigration policy to which Donald Trump is already applying. It is not the first time that Elon Musk’s interventions in German politics lift Polvareda. A few weeks ago, the owner of X granted an interview Alice Weidel, party leader, in which the German representative said with conviction that Adolf Hitler was a communist and the third Reich, socialist. Weidel put himself in charge of German training after the resignation of his European candidate Maximiliam Krah, after statements in which he banalized the holocaust. Krah said that “I will never say that everyone who had a uniform of the SS was automatically a criminal.” These statements led to other European ultra -right parties, such as national regrouping of Marine Le Pen or Italian League of Mateo Salvini, They broke their relationships With AFD. Elon Musk’s interests. Elon Musk’s interests in which AFD wins the elections in Germany have a name: Tesla. The gigafactoría that the car manufacturer has close to Berlin faced many doubts about its environmental impact before achieving the necessary permits to initiate their construction works. On the other hand, it is paradoxical that Musk supports the candidacy of the only party that openly opposed the construction of the Tesla factory in Germany, according to They collect local media. In addition, the strict Labor laws in Germany and its environmental restrictions Nor are they contributing to the interests of expansion of the German plant. Elon Musk would not be denied that, with the arrival of the AFD ultra -right party to power in Germany, Tesla Viera as reduced by his tax bill in Germany, such as the one that has provided the arrival of Donald Trump Trump To the great American technology. In Xataka | The next border of the super farms is no longer to be Milmillonarios, is to be Billionaires: Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are candidates Image | AFD

A German developer has bought a Nazi bunker for one million euros. Now he wants to turn it into a “fortress” for the rich

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Germany is still grappling with the legacy of the Nazis. Throughout the country there is an extensive network of bunkers of the Second World War with the capacity to accommodate almost half a million people. Some of those left have been redesigned to serve citiesbut there are those who want to recover them for something similar to their original purpose: to be a fortress for the richest in the face of fear of a World War III. And they even have their own cryptocurrency: BunkerCoin. The project. It all starts when a real estate developer is occurred the idea: convert a World War II tunnel system into a bunker for rich people who fear a Third World War breaking out. those tunnels 13 kilometers long are near the town of Halberstadt, about 200 kilometers southwest of Berlin and were built by prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 2019, businessman Peter Karl Jugl purchased these tunnels through his company Global Project Management for 1.3 million euros. Now you want to make profits. luxury bunker. Jugl’s idea is to create protected homes that also have all the facilities and comforts. “Similar to rooms on luxury yachts,” according to the project, with food to be obtained through agriculture and indoor mushroom cultivation. Among the amenities mentioned, we find a school, a workshop, a casino, hospital, workshop, gym and spa. So that the circadian cycle is not lost (although without sunlight it is somewhat complicated), the installation will simulate sunrises and sunsets in something extremely similar to what we can see in the nuclear shelters from the ‘Fallout’ saga. It will also be proof of a nuclear war. BunkerCoin. How is entry guaranteed? By purchasing a cryptocurrency, each one guaranteeing one cubic centimeter of space inside the bunker. It is estimated that a small room would cost around half a million dollars At the moment… The intention Historical memory. It is estimated that nearly 7,000 Buchenwald camp inmates worked in the tunnels and more than half died while digging. The purpose of the facility in its day was the manufacture of aviation equipment during the final phase of the war and, evidently, the plan for the luxury bunker has not pleased the descendants of those one bit. slaves who built it. Langenstein-Zwieberge is a memorial built in the vicinity of the prison camp that honors both victims and survivors and its director, Gero Fedtke, called the project “an inappropriate way of treating the historical heritage of the tunnel.” Disbelief. Curiously, all this has caught Jugl on a different footing. In a telephone interview granted told AFP that he has been letting visitors to the memorial access a section of the tunnel where historical traces from the Nazi era still remain, but he wanted to separate the tunnels from the prison camp located about two kilometers away. In addition, he commented that he is “building a facility to save human lives in an emergency and I have been treated unfairly, insulted and threatened.” An association of relatives of prisoners is not on that same page, pointing out that it is impossible to separate the tunnels from the camp, since the reason for the existence of that facility was to house the slave labor that would excavate the tunnels. Fedtke comments that, like the camp, the tunnels have historical relevance because in Buchenwald “hardly any historical traces of the Nazi era have been preserved and in the tunnel it is totally different.” still there. With all this commotion, Jugl has offered the state of Saxony-Anhalt the possibility of buying back the tunnels. It must be said that your company specializes in the purchase of “properties the bigger the better” with the aim of making them profitable and, now, it is offering the repurchase of the tunnel network for eight million euros. However, the state Ministry of Culture told AFP that they have not received any permit request for the construction of the bunker and that, “as it is a cultural monument, all structural or use changes require approval.” What they have received is the buyback proposal, something that has led some to think that Jugl’s plan was not to create any bunkers, but simply noise so that the state would give him more money than he originally paid for the tunnels and win. in the transaction. Whatever it is, it is a curious way to play with something as sensitive as the historical memory of the victims of Nazism. Images | Bunkercoin In Xataka | Faced with the escalation in Ukraine, Germany has dusted off something: a war manual and its underground shelters

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