Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:40 AM 11/26/1999 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: >Personally, I was very grateful to learn that the Leitz family had >behaved responsibly during the Nazi regime in helping some of their >workers who were at risk escape from Germany. For that knowledge alone, >I think this thread has been a very valuable one for me. > Mike One member of the Leitz family was imprisoned by the Gestapo in a concentration camp for six months, and the business manager, a cousin, was immune only as he was a Swiss citizen. And Heinz Kuppenbender, the head of Zeiss and in charge of the entire German optical industry, was tried by the Nazis as an obstructionist for his shielding of more than 3,000 folks at Jena. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!