Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 11/24/99 1:14:50 PM, megamax@abacom.com writes: >In delving deeper into the history of Ernst Leitz Wetzlar >during the war, I've learned that the company was certainly >better than most German firms in its treatment of Jews >and other targets of the Nazis Somehow I remember some story about the Leica company giving its Jewish employees a camera to sell when they hit the American shores. Is this just company propaganda. Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I wasn't really paying attention. Bob (doesn't know his Leica history) McEowen