Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/24

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Subject: [Leica] Universal viewfinder turret Russian Contax copy
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Wed Aug 24 15:26:08 2005
 
> --  All of Zeiss' optical papers -- research papers, test results, &c &c --
> were taken and were spirited away in a train minutes before the 
> Britishdemanded that they be shared. The US Army later had to pay Zeiss 
> for these
> though these papers seem to have disappeared and their fate is 
> unknown:perhaps they went to warm the huts of German peasants 
> during the extraoridnarily cold winters of 1945-'46 and 1946-'47.

Thanks for the comprehensive reply Mark.

The joys of having allies at wars end.

Regards,

Greg