Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/26

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Subject: [Leica] More on Leitz in WWII
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:50:59 +0000
 
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One member of the Leitz family was imprisoned by the Gestapo in a
concentration camp for six months, and the business manager, a cousin,
was
immune only as he was a Swiss citizen.  And Heinz Kuppenbender, the head
of
Zeiss and in charge of the entire German optical industry, was tried by
the
Nazis as an obstructionist for his shielding of more than 3,000 folks at

Jena.

Marc
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I'm grateful to know this, too. Thanks, Marc.

- --Mike