Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, Peter, it's not. Difficult. ;-) Sure, if one is a hard-liner one could argue against purchasing anything produced in German from 1933 to June of 1945. On the other hand, it's a lot easier to say that one doesn't want to own any specifically Nazi paraphernalia. As there are so many Leicas and only so much money to buy them with, why would one conceivably want to own swastika-bearing Leicas? On 6/30/09 5:44 PM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: > Nathan, > > I know what you mean. I wouldn't buy a swastika-bearing anything, for > reasons > we > have discussed. Let alone anything even purporting to have SS origins. > However > would you also decline to buy any Leica produced during the war? After all > there > were - as I understand it - Leicas that were not military issue produced > during > the period. Some of those too must have taken images of things which we > would > rather not discuss...and then there are all those Leicas that arrived in > the > hands of the occupying forces after the war, many of which had wartime > origins. > Many pre-war lenses may have had a similar history. > > Where would you draw the line? It's difficult. > > As ever, > > Peter > > Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> One of Geoff's Berlin pictures: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/g/b/b115.jpg.html >> >> Explains why I despise the whole Nazi-Leica collectionism as evidenced >> in parts of LHSA and elsewhere. >> >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>