Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:34:54 -0700

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> Let me ask a philosophical/ethical/political question which I'm sure is
> going to raise a few LUG hackles:
> 
> Aren't there some "collectibles" that, given their provenance, shouldn't be
> collected other than in Museums. Or, are their certain items that we should
> neither invest in nor profit from? For instance, would anyone on the list
> collect a human skin lamp shade? Where should the line be drawn?
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> (And, by the way, to eliminate a line of questioning before it arises, I am
> a "genetic" Jew who was raised in an atheist/agnostic household and whose
> only religious training came from attending an Episcopal boarding school for
> five years.)

Some of my  thoughts coming from a half Jewish Background:
Luftwaffen means air force and although it occasionally sends a chill
down my back too it is not an SS deal and could apply to WW1.
It's also my understanding that nothing should raise your suspicions
more a Luftwaffen on a Leica as the stamping on of which is the Number
one scam in the industry to triple the price of a camera  (eyebrow
raised).