Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now if only I could > find evidence that Franke & Heidecke had behaved honorably, I might feel a > bit better about carrying a Rolleiflex. > > Douglas Cooper > http://www.dysmedia.com Maybe I'm missing one of my ethical genes - well, another of my ethical genes - but I can drive a Volkswagen New Beetle and carry a Leica - and would love to own a Rollei 2.8, without any guilt. These are products manufactured by companies in a nation rebuilt from the ground up...literally. The companies are controlled by the children and grandchildren of the National Socialists, and while there are certainly anti-Semitic attitudes and actions astir there, there are the same astir here. Now, acquiring Nazi photo paraphernalia is a whole other kettle of grotesquely rotten ethical fish... TLFKAG