Re: [Leica] Slave Unit

["Bruce R. Slomovitz" <brslomo@erols.com>]

I'm afraid that what we are reading here about letting history rest is just
so much crap from those who, likely as not, would have us believe that the
holocaust never happened.  It's the same crap you hear from those who don't
want to talk about slavery.  The truth, unfortunately, is that when a
society perpetrates this kind of crime, there never can be an end to talking
of it.  It must be talked about so that it can never happen again.

Bruce S.
- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 7:37 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Slave Unit


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of TM
>Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 6:43 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Slave Unit
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>The obvious source of the lawsuit? Extremely greedy attorneys and their
>clients,
>Jewish, who won't let history rest. My Jewish photographer friends are
>disturbed
>about this as well. Poor Leica! Its current management had no part in the
>operations the lawsuits allege took place. Down with lawyers!!! Up with
>photographers!!!
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>REPLY:
>Excuse me? "Won't let history rest"?
>
>We don't seem to have any facts about the Leica situation at the moment, so
>believing that someone is innocent until proven guilty, let's set that one
>aside for the moment.
>
>There doesn't seem to be any question, however, that numerous German
>corporations, including VW and Benz, profited by their use of slave labor.
>No one is blaming today's corporate officer for what happened. These are,
>however, the same corporations they were back then. The corporation,
>therefore, is very much responsible in terms of compensating victims and
>victims families. Just as German and Swiss banks, whose officials from the
>30s and 40s are long dead or retired, are morally and legally responsible
to
>make good on purloined accounts, etc.
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>I find it quite "amusing" that you have to note in your post that this is
>being done by "extremely greedy attorneys and their clients, Jewish..."
Not,
>"their clients, survivors of/victims of," Nazi horrors. And your "Jewish
>photographer friends" are upset by this.
>
>Wow...Those greedy Jews and their lawyers are at it again. But some of your
>best friends, who are Jewish, are upset by what the greedy ones, the loud
>pushy ones, are doing. Somehow, that all sounds painfully familiar.
>
>Let history lay? What ever happened to the idea that those who fail to
study
>history are doomed to repeat it?
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