BS”D
Back on topic – I live in Eastern Europe and German products are unavoidable here, so I make a distinction between small day to day purchases like an $2 bottle of a personal care product that I can’t do without and that is made by a German firm, and capital purchases which I define as anything over $75 or anything that someone sees me with every day.
The one time I didn’t – well, I got a nice reminder. Bought a Siemens cellphone before they sold the division to a Chinese firm – it was the worst phone I ever owned – and it met its end when it fell into the throne which the king sits on alone! A fitting end and I realized immediately while it happened.
Bosch is now part of Siemens. Yes, Robert Bosch tried to resist but I do not know whether his heirs still own any part of the company and Siemens was about the worst offender during the Nazi era. Braun is part of Gillette now and hardly has any connection with Germany anymore.