Swastika Laundry van… but in Ireland, not in Nazi Germany. The Swastika Laundry was founded in 1912, and was located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin. The delivery vans, of which an example is seen here, were electric powered. With Ireland being neutral in WWII the simultaneous use of the swastika – used by the laundry in its original good luck context (although you can’t help wondering about the colour scheme) – by Nazi Germany didn’t cause any problems for them, and apparently it continued to be used into the 1980s
***You’ve tried ethnic cleansing***
***Now try our esteemed garment cleansing***
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You’re title needs work, OP.
We’d never get away with it nowadays, typical cancel culture
Grew up just up the road from that laundry and can remember the laundry chimney had swastikas painted on it up until the late 80’s early 90’s. Like on the van in the picture, the swastikas we’re not angled like the ones the Nazis used as their emblem.
The chimney itself is still there.
Laundries in Ireland have always been a bit dodgy.
My gran used them all her life, when she came to Dublin from the West of Ireland. She was Jewish, and lost all her family in the holocaust as did my grandfather. I well remember the chimney, whenever we went through Ballsbridge. Nobody was bothered then.
That “brief” moment in time when Fine Gael were a quasi-facist party ? 😅
Ar ye Reich there Michael are ye Reich..
🤣😂 old news to old Dubliners 🤣😂
Those vans are also fully electric. Blindboy talked about them on his podcast. That symbol was adopted by Hitler, it wasn’t originally synonymous with Nazis.
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Swastika Laundry van… but in Ireland, not in Nazi Germany. The Swastika Laundry was founded in 1912, and was located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin. The delivery vans, of which an example is seen here, were electric powered. With Ireland being neutral in WWII the simultaneous use of the swastika – used by the laundry in its original good luck context (although you can’t help wondering about the colour scheme) – by Nazi Germany didn’t cause any problems for them, and apparently it continued to be used into the 1980s
***You’ve tried ethnic cleansing***
***Now try our esteemed garment cleansing***
[deleted]
You’re title needs work, OP.
We’d never get away with it nowadays, typical cancel culture
Grew up just up the road from that laundry and can remember the laundry chimney had swastikas painted on it up until the late 80’s early 90’s. Like on the van in the picture, the swastikas we’re not angled like the ones the Nazis used as their emblem.
The chimney itself is still there.
Laundries in Ireland have always been a bit dodgy.
My gran used them all her life, when she came to Dublin from the West of Ireland. She was Jewish, and lost all her family in the holocaust as did my grandfather. I well remember the chimney, whenever we went through Ballsbridge. Nobody was bothered then.
That “brief” moment in time when Fine Gael were a quasi-facist party ? 😅
Ar ye Reich there Michael are ye Reich..
🤣😂 old news to old Dubliners 🤣😂
Those vans are also fully electric. Blindboy talked about them on his podcast. That symbol was adopted by Hitler, it wasn’t originally synonymous with Nazis.