Coca-Cola Collaboration with the Nazis in the 1930s for Fanta The not-so-sweet history of a horrible collaboration to make a buck. “The onset of the Second World War confronted the Coca-Cola Company with an acute irony. For all their dogged efforts at building an overseas empire during the past decade and a half, [they] could point to only one country that was a complete, unqualified success: Nazi Germany.” Frederick Allen, Secret Formula In 1933, the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany, Coca-Cola’s local unit sold 100,000 cases. The subsidiary’s finances were in shambles, however. Enter 30-year-old German businessman Max...