Colin Davie Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 There are a number of badges with this written on, Braune Messe, any ideas anyone, the general meaning?A brown meeting/fair/gathering?Brown what? Shirts?I have such a daybadge with a ship named "Cap Polonio" atop a shield on which is written "Braune messe, Hamburg 1933", below which is a swastika.The ship looks like a large cruise ship and I know it ran between Hamburg and Buenos Aires at the time.Anyone think what the badge represented?C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josef Rietveld Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 as far as i know the messe here stands for exhibition (trade show). josef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdesember Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 (edited) Braune Messe is a boycott against purchasing goods from Jewish owned businesses. It started after the Machtergreifung and soon became an organized event in Germany where your tinnies might be purchased by the population to show their support. The slogan of the Braune Messe is "Dem deutschen K?ufer deutsche Waren in deutschen Gesch?ften" which essentially translates "For the German Buyers, German Goods in German Establishments". The tinny with Cap Poloino on it, thus might represent a sponsorhip by the owner of that cruise ship to show their support of this boycott by the issuance of the tinny with their ship's name on it. Check out this web page:http://www.adolf-reichwein-schule.de/315.0.html Edited March 12, 2009 by sdesember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I've got a listing of every German merchant vessel's fate during the Second War and no "Cap Polonio" so it must have been scrapped before 1939. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedytop Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Hi,it was for a "Braune Messe" on board the Cap Polonio in 1933:http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php...667&start=0The reason for a "Braune Messe" see in Post 3, "Buy German, don't buy Jewish".The ship was wrecked in 1935.Uwe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdesember Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Cap Polonio almost suffered the same fate as a ship called L?beck that I perchanced came upon in my research on another topic (Boye, Leutnant zuer See - Reserve). Almost...that is that it was being traded around as a war-thropy as part of Germany's reparations to, first, the American then to the British after the Great War.It appeared Cap Poloino was scrapped in 1935 (?), according to this article and parts of its interior was sold off and now, they reside in a hotel in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany:http://schiffe.free-25.de/Polonio.htm(Some B&W photos of the ship are there too.)Web page of Hotel Cap Polonio:http://www.cap-polonio.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Davie Posted March 12, 2009 Author Share Posted March 12, 2009 Ask and ye shall receive... thanks for all the great info and help.Some of my badges now have a new sense of history, looking through some of the badges they are from 1933, and clearly part of that organised propaganda campaign against Jewish businesses.Thanks again, very much appreciated one and all.C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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