Thor Steinar

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Thor Steinar is a German clothing company. It trades as Thor Steinar Mediatex GmbH which is a subsidiary of International Brands General Trading based in Dubai.

In Germany, it is considered that the company is closely associated to neo-Nazism by the Verfassungschutz of the state of Brandenburg.[1] In German media, the brand is oftenly discussed in the light of this association. Wearing Thor Steinar clothes is expressly forbidden in the Bundestag, in the Landtage of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony and in many football stadiums.[2]

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  1. Scene costumes for right-wing extremists Archived 2020-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, from the official Web pages of the state of Brandenburg (in German).
  2. "Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany". The Independent. 14 February 2013.

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