Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Value Added and Nazi Cameras
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:10:19 -0500

It is perhaps important to remember that Heinz Kuppenbender, the head of
the German optical industry and the Chairman of Zeiss, was tried by the
Nazis for treason for his shielding of laborers by declaring them "vital to
the German national war effort".   (Speer quashed these proceedings, though
Kuppenbender was later to be tried, and acquitted, by the Allies, as well!)
 And Else Kuehn-Leitz, Ludwig Leitz' daughter, was sent to a concentration
camp, briefly, in 1943 for aiding the Palm family to escape from Germany.

Marc

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