Re: [Leica] Leitz's role in defying Nazis

[LawsonCL@aol.com]

Uh, what is BJP? Its credentials? Its credibility? Its bias? Could this 
revelation be little more than revisionist whitewash? 

Hey, no matter. Once word of this gets out, be it fact or PR fiction, 
literally millions of Holocaust victim empathizers, blinded by the charitable 
imperative of goodwill, will rush to camera stores to honor--and 
purchase--Ernst's heroic mechanical progeny. 

Praise be, affluence will reign over Leicadom. And the boys in Solms can 
proudly show Konikonanica the door.

Chris (Color Me Skeptical On 67-Year-Old "Headline News") Lawson  
And DO NOT FOR A MINUTE think I am a Nazi sympathizer.


In a message dated 1/25/00 12:35:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
pasuno@hotmail.com writes:

<< HEADLINE NEWS...  HEADLINE NEWS...  HEADLINE NEWS...
 ------------------------------------------Leitz's role in defying Nazis
 The BJP has discovered that Ernst Leitz II, who put Oskar Barnak's Leica
 35mm camera into production in 1925, like the now famous hero of
 Schindler's List, Oskar Schindler, worked actively to save Jews from Nazi
 persecution, writes Geoffrey Crawley.
 Following the arrest of a number of Jews, residents of Wetzlar, after
 Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Ernst Leitz II used his personal prestige
 and economic clout to have them freed. He then set up a training school
 near the Leitz factory in which young Jews were enrolled. At the end of the
 course they were given certificates, making them in effect Leitz employees.
 This gave them the opportunity as 'technical specialists' to travel abroad
 and so make their escape.(Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP) >>