Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, My question still stands. How do you know they were not involved in the use (direct or indirect) of slave labor. You stated this with such certainty that I think you should share with us, whence this certainty comes. Bruce S. - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] class action suit >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