RE: [Leica] Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

I find this thread beginning to become somewhat grotesque and offensive.
Could we please get back to talking less politicals things like Leica
cameras, photography, or perhaps single malt scotch.  There is nothing
better than that combination..... 

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 12:35 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification


"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> Let me ask a philosophical/ethical/political question which I'm sure is
> going to raise a few LUG hackles:
> 
> Aren't there some "collectibles" that, given their provenance, shouldn't
be
> collected other than in Museums. Or, are their certain items that we
should
> neither invest in nor profit from? For instance, would anyone on the list
> collect a human skin lamp shade? Where should the line be drawn?
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> (And, by the way, to eliminate a line of questioning before it arises, I
am
> a "genetic" Jew who was raised in an atheist/agnostic household and whose
> only religious training came from attending an Episcopal boarding school
for
> five years.)

Some of my  thoughts coming from a half Jewish Background:
Luftwaffen means air force and although it occasionally sends a chill
down my back too it is not an SS deal and could apply to WW1.
It's also my understanding that nothing should raise your suspicions
more a Luftwaffen on a Leica as the stamping on of which is the Number
one scam in the industry to triple the price of a camera  (eyebrow
raised).