Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > >I wonder why more Jews don't shun German cars/cameras???? > > Maybe because if we shunned those who committed any kind of atrocities, we > couldn't buy not only Leicas, Rolleis and the like, but Canons, Nikons, > Pentaxes and even Zorkies. Or Seagulls for that matter. And American > Indians couldn't buy Kodak film. Snip Snap > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > Pi R Squared? No Pi R round, Cornbread R Square! My first camera was a Voightlander in the Mid Fifties. There was a rationale that the company was or is though German, Jewish owned. (Did the Voightlander family survive the war?) My relatives, all Doctors discussed comparative microscopes over a few Scotches (for real, no tie in intended) and the subject of lampshades came up. I later found this ironic because one of them had spent the war in a Japanese Concentration Camp. By the mid sixty's it was all a moot point.