Wehrmacht drinking Coke

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 6:14 pm

Has anyone got or at least seen pictures of German Army personell drinking coke?

I read and was told that coke was very popular in Germany allready in the 1920s and 1930s and was produced until late 1942 (until they ran out of the special "coke syrup"). As compensation Fanta was invented.

Thanks for your help

Regards

Danny

Commissar D, the Evil · Tue Jul 08, 2003 6:25 pm

Danny, I'd bet the Coca Cola company swept into Germany in late 1945 and confiscated every picture they could find of German Soldiers drinking Coke!!

Cheers,
~D, the EviL

jmark · Post by **jmark** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:59 pm

I've seen a pre-war photo of German troops marching through a German town and in the background is an advertisement for Coke. However, never seen a photo of a German soldier actually drinking from the can! Maybe there's some substance to David's theory!

Jason Mark

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 5:14 am

Seems so, unfortunatly

Still, there might some private photos of some kind, maybe e.g.
of army personell sitting in a cafe and in the backround on some table...

...maybe not to obvious pictures.

Still great

Regards

Danny

KampfgruppeMeyer · Post by **KampfgruppeMeyer** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:15 pm

i have heard this too
not so sure about fanta though . . . i heard hitler enjoyed TAB.

Dressler · Post by **Dressler** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 8:19 am

I found this information on the Truppensattler.de website:

"Coca Cola"
Coca Cola Soft drink established in Germany in 1929. A product of a German Company, the Coca Cola GmbH in Essen, that filled some few hundred million bottles until 1942, when running short of the Coca Cola syrups- not caused by the German declaration of war against the U.S.A. in this year, more a result of the British blockade against German occupied Europe.
Having only a small quantity of CC syrups left, the German CC company
did create an Ersatz, a substitute syrup, with an artificial Orange flavour. An odd taste- one of the directors trying it quoted that "..man viel Fantasie braucht, um es attraktiv zu finden" "... one needs a lot of fantasy to find it attractive", and so, still in quest for a name, they called it "Fanta", and started the production, and it is still a major soft drink, today..."

Jason Pipes · Post by **Jason Pipes** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:02 pm

Ok! I found a photo (a little blurry, but hey...) in my collection of a German Heer soldier, a young woman and an Org Todt man, looks like they are actually posing in front of the Coke sign on purpose!!

rjf1538 · Post by **rjf1538** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 8:24 pm

thats her brother on the right. and the heer soldier must be the father of the child. maybe? the child looks to be 3 @ the most. big kid, just like dad.

Jason Pipes · Post by **Jason Pipes** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 8:38 pm

How do you know that is her brother? It is a neat photo though, no?

rjf1538 · Post by **rjf1538** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:36 pm

just guessing on the relationships. now that i look @ the photo further....
the child my be as young a 18 months(she's trying to steady him). meaning the childs conception was close to the date of occupation.

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:56 am

@ Jason: Amazing picture, thank you very much.

I had nearly givee up to see a picture relating to this topic.

Regards

Danny

pz_gren · Post by **pz_gren** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:57 pm

I have seen a photo of soldiers sitting in a cafe with a Coke advertisement over their head...abet, they weren't actually drinking Cokes

KampfgruppeMeyer · Post by **KampfgruppeMeyer** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 11:09 pm

"...Coca-Cola's desire was to sell Coke to whoever would drink it, wherever they were, regardless of race, ideology, or system of government; its only objective was to spread of Coca-Cola. This lack of discrimination allowed the product to be more widely disseminated that it would have been had Coke refused to transact business in totalitarian states. A major market for Coca-Cola was Nazi Germany, which had 43 bottling plants and over 600 local distributors by 1939. The product was a favorite of Hitler and the Nazi military, and it was bottled in the Third Reich up to and during World War II; in fact, Nazi aggression actually helped to spread Coke around Europe, as bottlers were established in newly conquered areas such as Austria and the Sudetenland.

The eventual cessation of Coca-Cola production in Nazi Germany was not a decision of The Coca-Cola Company but of the Berlin government. Max Keith, the leading Coca-Cola bottler in Germany, actually joined the Nazi bureaucracy in order to lobby from within against prohibitions on the import of Coke syrup; he wished to have his Coca-Cola bottling business declared a local industry, so that the government would not restrict the import of the ingredients. Though high officials enjoyed Coke, there were some problems with marketing it in the Third Reich. The official Nazi position was that the fizzy American beverage was "a menace to European civilization." ...After it was publicized that Coca-Cola was kosher, consumption dropped off drastically.

Still, Keith was able to keep his business alive. Even after the Nazis prohibited the import of essential Coke ingredients (de-cocainized coca leaves and Coke's secret ingredient), Keith stayed in business by inventing and selling Fanta, a fruit drink which continues to be a Coca-Cola product today. Thanks largely to Keith's efforts, Coca-Cola was able to re-establish production Germany virtually immediately after World War II..."

Coke is Kosher

Richard V. Nawrocki ([email protected]) provides this information: It is indeed true that (Classic) Coke is certified as kosher. (I can't vouch for other kinds, but since soft drinks contain no animal products, I would assume that the other non-diet varieties of Coke are kosher too, and probably even the diet varieties, if artificial sweeteners get the nod.)

However, there is a difference between "Kosher" and "Kosher for Passover". Since corn (and hence corn syrup) is not kosher *during Passover,* Coke which is Kosher for Passover is *guaranteed* to contain *real sugar!*

Since many people believe that Coke tastes much better when sweetened with sugar as compared to corn syrup, catching a mother lode of Coke around Passover time is a good way to get a more perfect product. But apparently only communities with some threshold number of Jewish people get the stuff from the distributors, hence "the search"...
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ramon · Post by **ramon** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 6:25 pm

In one of the early issues of Die Wehrmacht there is a nice ad for Coca Cola.

Ramon

Helmut Von Moltke · Post by **Helmut Von Moltke** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:56 pm

ah, becuase of the fanta thing are there any photos of Wehrmacht or Waffen SS soldiers drinking fanta then?

Feldgrau.net

Wehrmacht drinking Coke

Wehrmacht drinking Coke

really?

awesome foto!

Coca Cola