Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] Hitler & Leica
From: "Johnny Deadman" <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:46:44 +0000

> Speaking of the Leitz workers...  I watched "Schindler's List" again last
> night, and recalled that Leitz faced similar difficulties during the war,
> and was able to help some of its workers escape the country.

In Ronald Hayman's HITLER AND GELI there's a story about Hitler refusing to
by Geli, his niece, a Leica, because he said it was like a gun, just point
and shoot. She used a Rollei, which he appears to have approved of.


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Johnny Deadman

"It is one of the misfortunes of life that one must read thousands of books
only to discover that one need not have read them" - de Quincey