Pacific Coast Biscuit Company magazine

[V117collector]

It's just to bad that some groups of poeple used the Swastika for there own
personal agenda, truly a shame! For this reason I find this thread somewhat offensive.

A more detailed LOOK!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Nazi Party 1919 - 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

[FrankWakefield]

I detest what the swastika came to symbolize. And I apologize to anyone offended by my posting of the images of this company newsletter.

[tbob]

Frank- There is no need to apologize. Every time a person with a conscience sees that symbol he is reminded of man's inhumanity towards his fellow man and I believe will recall the words on the front gates of the Holocaust memorial I saw in France, "We will forgive but let us never forget."
Adolph Hitler was once asked if the world's perception of the Holocaust when it was in its earliest stages would cause dire fallout for Germany and Hitler said, "Who remembers the Armenians?" Today most Americans have little knowledge if any at all about the first mass genocide, the Turkish slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenian men, women and children during World War 1. Hitler foolheartedly thought the Holocaust would be as easily forgotten.
When I see that symbol I don't think of "good luck," I think of the horror and the tragedy and the utter inhumanity. It is good we remember. Let us never forget.

[rhettyeakley]

It is pretty sad when a symbol that meant something good for so long has been destroyed.

Anyways, here is a pretty cool postcard from 1907 I have and it's description on back...


-Rhett

[canjond]

And Troppicana thought it had problems when it had to rework its artwork earlier this year.

[FrankWakefield]

In that 3rd image that is a close up of text mentioning the location of the 6 Pacific Coast Biscuit facilities, it mentions that president Moritz Thomsen is also president of Centennial Flour Mills. Centennial Flour distributed those PCL cards about 1943 - 1947. Before that I never perceived a connection between Pacific Coast Biscuit cards and Centennial Flour cards.

[joeadcock]

To tbob

Thanks for your words.

Right now, I am in the middle of reading a book called THE BOY WHO DARED, based on the true story of a Hitler Youth who hated what it meant to be part of the Third Reich and how he tried to stop them. If you get to read it, it is a great read. It was actually written for older children, my daughter had to read it for her private and school and gave it to me.

Sorry to get off topic, but I am afraid that we may revisit what occured at World War II, based on the way parts of our world are acting.

Frank L.

[J.McMurry]

My memory may be faulty,but wasnt the swastika also an ancient Hindu religious symbol?

Personally, I am offended when I see an American citizen dressed in a Nazi uniform,but I'm never offended by talk of History. To be easily offended by words is to empower them.