Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Nazi Paraphernalia
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:48:13 -0500
References: <B6B0DDF6.BEB%douglas@dysmedia.com>

  Now if only I could
> find evidence that Franke & Heidecke had behaved honorably, I might feel a
> bit better about carrying a Rolleiflex.
> 
> Douglas Cooper
> http://www.dysmedia.com

Maybe I'm missing one of my ethical genes - well, another of my ethical
genes - but I can drive a Volkswagen New Beetle and carry a Leica - and
would love to own a Rollei 2.8, without any guilt. These are products
manufactured by companies in a nation rebuilt from the ground
up...literally. The companies are controlled by the children and
grandchildren of the National Socialists, and while there are certainly
anti-Semitic attitudes and actions astir there, there are the same astir
here. 

Now, acquiring Nazi photo paraphernalia is a whole other kettle of
grotesquely rotten ethical fish...

TLFKAG

In reply to: Message from Douglas Cooper <douglas@dysmedia.com> ([Leica] Re: Nazi Paraphernalia)