Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:35 AM 11/23/1999 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote: > >WHY? WHY? Would anyone WANT to own a Leica or Contax used by the armed >forces or government of the Third Reich? And spare me the "study of history" >crap. One doesn't need to collect them to know that they were made and what >features they had. Who said the first thing about collecting these puppies? I was asked specific questions on the history of German military procurement of cameras, and answered the question to the limit of my knowledge. I also discussed US Navy periscope cameras. I suppose you object to this element of the discussion because the US mis-treated ethnic and religious minorities? May I safely presume that you found William Shirer and Louis P Lochner objectionable because they wrote about Nazi Germany both from Berlin and the US and knew most of the Nazi Bonzen? Are we safe in figuring that you detest NASA because Werner von Braun met Hitler a number of times and had his first real break from him (and, of course, despite the fact that rocketry and space travel is only 10% or so of NASA's activities)? For that matter, didn't you once mention that one of your customers was one of the major German firms? Wasn't it IG Farbenindustrie? We're merely talking and you're doing? Give it a rest, BD. It gets really old to be PC'd to death, especially on the LUG. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!