Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:30 AM 9/1/98 -0700, you wrote: >Not to be annoying, bow can you be certain? There are a lot of little parts >that go into a camera and its box, and how can you be sure that, for >example, there weren't manuals being printed or boxes being packed or >something? That's a very good point. I photographed a Jewish fellow (and Emmy-winning producer for the National Geographic piece on the Titanic) who lives here in town who was in on the liberation of one of the bigger camps at the end of the war, and was actually put in charge of taking care of the people. He told a very moving story about how people came out from the nearby town and said "We didn't know that happened. This is terrible. We just didn't know." And his reply was, "You were silent when the Jews were hauled away, and you didn't want to know. There is no excuse for not standing up to this." So not being involved in direct use of slave labor might not be all that counts, so who knows? We shall see. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Common sense is that layer of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. Albert Einstein