This was in a Costco magazine. The family used ""savings"" to start this business and then later got a military contract with the US. I wonder where that savings came from? Perhaps more family lore?
Phwow, the way my brain practically just skipped the "postwar" part because of the fact that it literally says Nazi Germany is just... Ugh, it's just such blatant trickery, right? It's gross.
Yeah I did a double take when I read that. It's what compelled me to research it
I did the same thing! Re-read it and my eyebrows shot through the roof
He was fleeing Nazi persecution right?
to south africa as well huh
He was fleeing from the 
post-war
Nazi Germany
At least they admit it I guess 🤷
They are probably different people. Heinz Bonatz (the Navy-Nazi) died in 1981 according to the Wikipedia article you linked, which makes inventing anything, really, in 1988 rather difficult. Granted, fleeing post-war Germany for South Africa is extremely suspect on its own, but this seems to refer to a different person.
Heinz was Hans father. He just used a family name for his son. If you look at the second picture he has a ridiculously long name. Hans was likely born in between the two World Wars and died in 2000.
disc mechanisms for cots that were apparently not innovative enough to merit a Paperclipping
They eventually got that military contract though. Paper clip lite
He was 19? 
either it's a different nazi with the same name or they're just lying to humanize him (probably the latter)
Hans was most likely Heinz's son.
oh
shitty reading comprehension moment
How did you conclude that?
Herman Leopold Ludwig Eugene Hans Heinz Bonatz was his name. Likely named his son Hans. You can't even find out where Heinz passed away in 81. Hans being 19 in post war means he was probably born in the twenties
Herman Leopold Ludwig Eugene Hans Heinz Bonatz
I have four names and that's too many, this is ridiculous
You gotta pump those numbers up
changing names is now a capital crime in the state of texas, i'm committing a misdemeanor by not reporting you
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Hans was an exceedingly common name in that time. I personally knew two people named Hans who were born in that period and I considering I was born in the 90s, I don’t exactly know that many people from that time. And Bonatz doesn’t seem to be an all too uncommon name either, considering there is six people in the German Wikipedia with that last name, none of them being Hans Bonatz or being related.
They fled "post war nazi Germany" to south Africa. I'm sure that Hans is very common name but the reasonable doubt you are presenting does not betray the title of this post and is absolutely suspicious.
Heinz was born in '97, Hans would be born in '26 to be 19 in '45, which would mean Heinz was 29 when Hans was born - just the right age to be his father.
I could be wrong, but the timeline works out.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
99.99% of white south Africans are nazis
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