Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:29 PM 3/22/2000 -0500, Kurt Miska wrote: >Talk about irony. Yesterday I received the general info brochure on the >M6 from Leica NJ. Among some very nice photographs reproduced in this >lavish promo piece is the memorable Leica photo of Soviet soldiers >hoisting the hammer and sickle flag of the USSR over bombed out Berlin. >German camera used to take this sad photo. Now, that is interesting. It was the Reichstag building, and it was a staged photograph. I have a couple of right-ups on this in my military history files, but none that mentioned the Soviet photographer used a Leica. That's the sort of detail that the Commissars would forget to mention ... Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!