RE: [Leica] Value Added and Nazi Cameras

[Jeffrey Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>]

As I said before, there were many "Righteous Gentiles" most of whom have
been memorialized at Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial to the Holocaust.
However, the actions of two people, no matter how noble, does not absolve
German industry of its responsibility, nor does it abate the harm and
horrors which did occur.

	Buzz


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
> Sent:	Monday, January 04, 1999 1:10 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] Value Added and Nazi Cameras
> 
> 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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