The DICK-traitor

2001 | Photograph | Signed by Thomas Dellert-Dellacroix & Agnieszka Dellert-Dellfina Inspired by the series of photographs of Adolf Hitler taken by both Heinrich Hoffman and Eva Braun in the 1920’s Munich. In this version of the famous photo sessions Hitler is showing his Dick. Therefore the Ironic name Dick Traitor. Hitler had during his youth pissed on a goat for fun one day on his way home from school, and the goat had bitten of one of Hitler’s balls. After this incident, he never let anyone see him naked. Not even his private doctors was ever aloud to see him without trousers. And naturally it created a great sexual problem that resulted in perverted sexual practices. This gives us another aspect of the troublesome double personality of Adolf Hitler. BOSS Design plays on the fact that Hugo Boss was the official “designer “ of the Nazi Uniforms and by doing so he built up his today multi million dollar empire. Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen, a small town south of Stuttgart, where it is still based. However, due to the economic climate in Germany at the time Boss was forced into bankruptcy. In 1931 he reached an agreement with his creditors, leaving him with 6 sewing machines to start again. The same year, he became a member of the Nazi party and a sponsoring member ("Förderndes Mitglied") of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He joined the German Labour Front in 1936, the Reich Air Protection Association in 1939, the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1941. His sales increased from 38,260 RM in 1932 to over 3,300,000 RM in 1941 advertising he had been a “supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924”, when he became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung, Schutzstaffel, the SS, Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps and other party organizations. To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the former Soviet Union. were “The Boss family were all great admirers of Adolf Hitler” and Hugo Boss had in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler taken in the latter's Obersalzberg retreat. In a 1946 denazification judgement, based on his early party membership, his financial support of the SS and the uniforms delivered to the Nazi party even before 1933, Boss was considered both an “activist” and a “supporter and beneficiary of National Socialism”. He was stripped of his voting rights, his capacity to run a business and, fined “a very heavy penalty” of 100,000 marks. He died in 1948 but his business survived, and today BoSS design is worth 1.73 billion euros.