Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Slave Unit
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:25:15 -0400

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of TM
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 6:43 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Slave Unit

The obvious source of the lawsuit? Extremely greedy attorneys and their
clients,
Jewish, who won't let history rest. My Jewish photographer friends are
disturbed
about this as well. Poor Leica! Its current management had no part in the
operations the lawsuits allege took place. Down with lawyers!!! Up with
photographers!!!

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REPLY:
Excuse me? "Won't let history rest"?

We don't seem to have any facts about the Leica situation at the moment, so
believing that someone is innocent until proven guilty, let's set that one
aside for the moment.

There doesn't seem to be any question, however, that numerous German
corporations, including VW and Benz, profited by their use of slave labor.
No one is blaming today's corporate officer for what happened. These are,
however, the same corporations they were back then. The corporation,
therefore, is very much responsible in terms of compensating victims and
victims families. Just as German and Swiss banks, whose officials from the
30s and 40s are long dead or retired, are morally and legally responsible to
make good on purloined accounts, etc.

I find it quite "amusing" that you have to note in your post that this is
being done by "extremely greedy attorneys and their clients, Jewish..." Not,
"their clients, survivors of/victims of," Nazi horrors. And your "Jewish
photographer friends" are upset by this.

Wow...Those greedy Jews and their lawyers are at it again. But some of your
best friends, who are Jewish, are upset by what the greedy ones, the loud
pushy ones, are doing. Somehow, that all sounds painfully familiar.

Let history lay? What ever happened to the idea that those who fail to study
history are doomed to repeat it?