Talk:Eugène Schueller

Nazi attachment

This page has clearly been the victim of whitewash vandalism, in the time since I created it around two years ago. Dr. Schueller was of Alsatian ethnic origin, but was French. When I originally wrote this page, it included a historical description, with a reference to Michael Bar-Zohar, who wrote a well-researched book on these connections. It's fine to want the coverage to be "fair," but it's hard to see that his support for a pro-Nazi group doesn't even merit a mention.

I also note the addition of his son-in-law's loss of his parents. This is true, but that's not about Eugene Schueller. Someone is clearly trying to "clean up" this entry, by making L'Oreal look like it has a happy history with Jews and Nazis, and that's just not true.

I had heard that Liliane Bettencourt's son in law had a grandfather sent to the camps, not that both his parents died there, and this is written too in the French wikipedia, anyway. I had heard the rumours concerning l'Oreal and the extreme right as early as the 1970s.Saciperere (talk) 15:23, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I know it's impossible to enforce these standards around here, but I don't think that information should be changed or deleted by anyone who hasn't read the book, (or at least an equally reliable source, which they name on the talk page).

What book ? This was common talk among Parisians, decades before "the book" was written by a disgruntled employee. Saciperere (talk) 11:46, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Françoise Meyers is married to Jean-Pierre Meyers, whose parents died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Is this really necessary?!? (120.149.119.42 (talk) 12:40, 17 April 2013 (UTC))

" sympathiser"

The opening sentence: "Eugéne Schueller (1881 - 1954) was a Nazi sympathiser and the founder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty" reads a lot like a vandal's edit. Looking through the page history, it appears that there was a section on this man's involvement in t groups, although it was deleted.

As it is, this article desperately needs a section on the man's alleged Nazi connections. I don't personally have enough knowledge on the subject, but this is likely to be a contentious issue, so detailed citations will be necessary. --Doug (talk) 12:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe all it needs is a reference. Here's one more:

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,157348,00.html

There are hundreds of examples on the web, many books are written. I just learnt of it on french television tonight.

Given his surname [Schueller], he was a person clearly of German origin. This, besides other things, makes it more likely, that he was in fact a Nazi sympathiser.

So German surnames mark Nazi sympathizer? What do English surnames stand for, lousy school education? Couldn't find any evidence he had a big relation to Germany or even spoke German. Could anybody please give a source that he was "German"-French. Neither French nor German Wikipedia support this claim. And BTW, the English royals have German surnames...and two of De Gaules' generals, too! --84.59.221.110 (talk) 17:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

I'm very much in favor of thoroughly researched entries on this topic. The book listed at the bottom of the page has extensive detailing of this guy's involvement in far-right politics in the 1930's, much like Henry Ford in the US. The fact that this has been removed is a form of vandalism and violates NPOV policy.

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Anti-Semitic Savior of Jews?

I came to this page from Daniel Kahneman in search of context for this sentence: "His father, Efrayim, was picked up in the first major round-up of French Jews, but he was released after six weeks due to the intervention of his employer, Eugène Schueller." Imagine my surprise when I found that the person who supposedly saved this Jew was a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite! Whether this was due to a change of heart in the War or merely a dispassionate business decision, and whether or not he did this for any other employees, if it's true I feel like it is relevant to this article. Dukeofwulf (talk) 20:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)