Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] History
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:23:57 -0400

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From yesterday's Wall Street Journal, without comment:

"...One of the defendants, Leica Camera, said its founder, Ernst Leitz,
saved many Jews from concentration camps and actually was imprisoned for his
actions. The company, as well as others reached, declined to comment because
they hadn't received official notification of the lawsuits. The other
companies named are Henkel KGAA, Eicon Technology Diehl GmbH, Audi AG,
Wuertembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG and Man AG.
The host of lawsuits in U.S. courts related to the Nazi period are occurring
now partly because an agreement with the Allied powers prohibited legal
actions seeking reparations from the early 1950s until German reunification
in 1990. In 1953, the German government agreed to service debt from loans
from the period between the two world wars, in exchange for postponing
payments on other reparations, including slave-labor claims, until Germany
was reunified."


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