{"id":642711,"date":"2013-02-15T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=327829"},"modified":"2013-02-15T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:00:11","slug":"amazon-under-fire-for-allegedly-hiring-neo-nazi-linked-security-firm-to-guard-warehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642711","title":{"rendered":"Amazon under fire for allegedly hiring neo-Nazi-linked security firm to guard warehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/15\/amazon-criticism-neo-nazis-hired-327829\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/amazon-sign-box.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=434&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Amazon Criticism Neo-Nazis\" title=\"Amazon\" \/><\/a><\/center>The last thing <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=amzn\">AMZN<\/a>) CEO Jeff Bezos probably wanted to read this week was that his company had allegedly hired a security firm to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/30\/amazon-warehouse-an-inside-look\/\">guard its warehouses<\/a> in Germany that just happens\u00a0to be linked to neo-Nazis. Per the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/amazoncom-accused-hiring-neo-nazis-germany-1088984\"><em>International Business Times<\/em><\/a>, a documentary that aired on\u00a0German TV channel ARD this week accused Amazon of hiring HESS, a security company that has alleged ties to neo-Nazi groups and that shares a name with Rudolf Hess, who served as Hitler&#8217;s deputy in the Nazi party. According to the <em>International Business Times<\/em>, &#8220;the documentary showed the guards invading and searching [warehouse workers&#8217;] bedrooms and kitchens, and telling the workers that they were mandated to &#8216;keep order&#8217; in their homes.&#8221; Amazon, for its part, denies that it hired HESS and says that it is &#8220;currently examining the allegations concerning the behavior of security guards and will take the appropriate measures immediately&#8221; and that it does &#8220;not tolerate discrimination or intimidation.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/nslnrWmK_EM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last thing Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos probably wanted to read this week was that his company had allegedly hired a security firm to guard its warehouses in Germany that just happens\u00a0to be linked to neo-Nazis. Per the International Business Times, a documentary that aired on\u00a0German TV channel ARD this week accused Amazon of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}