Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bruce, I appreciate your passion. I appreciate all who urge us not to forget the holocaust. Or, as Santayana said, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I lost great-uncles and aunts in the holocaust and I share similar passions. What I don't appreciate is your vitriol and attitude to members of this list. This is a perennial topic that comes up: Leitz's involvement with the Nazis during and preceeding the war. Marc Small, who is a valuable and knowledgeable contributor to this list, who has written numerous books on Zeiss and Leitz, and who maintains no small degree of objectivity, is whom Eric has referenced. You may not have been a member during the last go-round on this topic but it really was hashed out quite a bit. You may want to go to the archives to see some of the history. In fact, all of you who are bringing this up again may want to revisit the archives. I don't want to go through this again on the LUG. It becomes a pissing contest of who's wrong and who's right and I don't think any of us favor the Holocaust, are revisionists or bear any complicity by using Leicas. Never Again means acting now to prevent present and future occurences. Finally, as a Jew, I have greater problems with fellow Jews who drive Mercedes and the like since that company was so helpful in developing some of the technologies that made the gas chambers so efficient. Bruce R. Slomovitz wrote: > > Well who the hell is Mark and what are his qualifications. No I did not see > his post. > > Bruce S. - -- Carl Socolow "Sometimes the wrong thing is exactly the thing you should do." Garrison Keillor.