Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:35 AM 11/23/1999 +0000, B. D. Colen wrote: >WHY? WHY? Would anyone WANT to own a Leica or Contax used by the armed >forces or government of the Third Reich? And spare me the "study of history" >crap. What other reason? Worship of Hitler? I don't think so. I have a violin teacher who prized his copy of a Nazi Luger with a very long barrel. Cool looking gun. But he didn't like it because Nazi's were evil. My father has a Nazi dagger that he's going to give me some day that he "liberated" in the occupation after WWII. It has the talons holding the world on the butt of it. It IS a part of history. And he has a machete from the Philippines a person gave him when he fought there. (It's a long story how he was in both theaters). And my mother has a makeup compact that he bought for her in Paris during the occupation that turned out to be holding a Nazi assassination list behind the mirror (he was a spy). The stuff takes him back to a very interesting part of his life. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Time is just one darn thing after another. - Anonymous