Amazon is being criticized for its practices in Germany, with a film crew documenting security employed in distribution centers. The security guards were brought in to control over 5,000 employees, many of them temporary and foreign. The workers come for a period of time and stay in motels or hostels while working in the centers. The security guards wore uniforms that carry neo-Nazi connotations. The film recorded the guards searching the workers' living quarters, as well as other poor working conditions.
See "Fury over Amazon's 'neo-Nazi, black-clad' German security staff who 'intimidate foreign workers'", Sara Malm, Daily Mail, February 14, 2013