{"id":23475,"date":"2010-06-02T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23475"},"modified":"2012-07-08T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T06:33:57","slug":"world-war-ii-era-converse-with-swastika-soles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/02\/world-war-ii-era-converse-with-swastika-soles\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Era Converse with Swastika Soles"},"content":{"rendered":"

War is always an opportunity for someone, many someones, to make money. A recently closed ebay auction<\/a> sold a pair of Converse shoes manufactured and sold during World War II. If I understand the description right, the shoes were sold to overseas servicemen who wanted to “stomp” on the Nazis; alternatively, they were sold to Nazis (I think the former).<\/p>\n

The shoes:<\/p>\n

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And, the kicker, the soles:<\/p>\n

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\nUPDATE! <\/strong><\/span> In the comments Joe C. linked to a website, aryanwear.com, where you can buy these:<\/p>\n

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Via BoingBoing<\/a>. \u00a0See also our post on the surprising history of the symbol<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War is always an opportunity for someone, many someones, to make money. A recently closed ebay auction sold a pair of Converse shoes manufactured and sold during World War II. If I understand the description right, the shoes were sold to overseas servicemen who wanted to “stomp” on the Nazis; alternatively, they were sold to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,98,253,1777,3920,23705,309],"class_list":["post-23475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-capitalism","tag-history","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-united-states","tag-vintage-stuff","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23475"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49409,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475\/revisions\/49409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}