Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, that's my line as well. I don't mind if the equipment was made between 1933 and 45, but I do mind if it carries an engraving indicating that it was made especially for the Nazi machine. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:51 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: > Actually, Peter, it's not. Difficult. ;-) > Sure, if one is a hard-liner one could argue against purchasing > anything > produced in German from 1933 to June of 1945. On the other hand, > it's a lot > easier to say that one doesn't want to own any specifically Nazi > paraphernalia. As there are so many Leicas and only so much money to > buy > them with, why would one conceivably want to own swastika-bearing > Leicas? > > > > > On 6/30/09 5:44 PM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: > >> Nathan, >> >> I know what you mean. I wouldn't buy a swastika-bearing anything, >> for reasons >> we >> have discussed. Let alone anything even purporting to have SS >> origins. However >> would you also decline to buy any Leica produced during the war? >> After all >> there >> were - as I understand it - Leicas that were not military issue >> produced >> during >> the period. Some of those too must have taken images of things >> which we would >> rather not discuss...and then there are all those Leicas that >> arrived in the >> hands of the occupying forces after the war, many of which had >> wartime >> origins. >> Many pre-war lenses may have had a similar history. >> >> Where would you draw the line? It's difficult. >> >> As ever, >> >> Peter >> >> Nathan Wajsman wrote: >>> One of Geoff's Berlin pictures: >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/g/b/b115.jpg.html >>> >>> Explains why I despise the whole Nazi-Leica collectionism as >>> evidenced >>> in parts of LHSA and elsewhere. >>> >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> http://www.nathanfoto.com >>> >>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information