Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:17 PM 1998-08-28 -0000, Robert wrote: >Did anyone see the segment on CBS news about the group of holocaust >survivors suing Leica and other German companies for using slave labor >during WWII? Well, according to the US Strategic Bombing Survey, Ernst Leitz used no slave labour. Carl Zeiss did use some, but primarily this was a ruse to shield folks from the gas chamber -- Heinz Kuppenbender was MUCH more successful than Spielberg's Schindler at this, to the point where he got himself accused of treason and was tried for the same, and acquitted. In any event, slave labour and the holocaust are different things on a broad level. The German slave-labour system, the process which eventually sent Sauckel to the gallows, involved non-Jewish personnel. There was a similar system using Jewish labour, but that was done at SS-owned factories which were closed down in '45. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!