Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nazi Leicas
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:15:17 -0800

At 10:00 AM 11/24/1999 -0500, Emanuel Lowi wrote:
>I have known an orthodox Jew who collected WWII era Leicas. He said he 
>delighted in
>gathering up the jetsam of the failed Hitlerian  fantasy. His point was 
>(and this is
>arguable) that the Nazis are gone, while we Jews remain.

There is a guy with class. He understands irony is a great insult to the 
pomposity of genocidal self-righteousness.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. 
- -William Albert Allard, "The Photographic Essay"