TIL that in 1952 Adidas bought the rights to the "three stripes" from a Finnish sportswear manufacturer called Karhu for two bottles of whiskey and the equivalent of €1,600.

Perspectivist@feddit.uk · edit-2 13 hours ago

TIL that in 1952 Adidas bought the rights to the "three stripes" from a Finnish sportswear manufacturer called Karhu for two bottles of whiskey and the equivalent of €1,600.

CactusEcho@piefed.social · 3 hours ago

It was the other way around. Both were registered in the nazi party (not mandatory to join but there was social pressure for business owners to do).

It’s assumed to be rudolph (the puma guy), because of his treatment by Allied authorities, and reporting that consistently characterizes him as the more ideologically aligned.