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HITIAG

Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1938

    Aryanization and dispossession of Jewish owners

    After the Anschluss, the Jewish Lieser and Duschnitz families were persecuted under Nazi anti-Jewish laws, forced out of HITIAG, and dispossessed of their business interests. The episode forms part of Austria's history of Nazi expropriation and the persecution of Jewish entrepreneurs.