[Leica] May 8, 1945

[kitmc at acmefoto.com (Kit McChesney)]

As users of Leica gear, we can also take heart in knowing that the Leitz
family did their part to help many persecuted people escape from Germany
prior and during the war. They hired many folks on as Leica representatives
and sent them outside the country so that they could escape. There is a
booklet on the subject written by Frank Dabba Smith, titled The Leica
Freedom Train, that chronicles that history. 

Kit (kitmc@acmefoto.com)

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[mailto:lug-bounces+kitmc=acmefoto.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Glantzman
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] May 8, 1945

There's some Leica content..., too.
...Perhaps the most extraordinary
photo ever taken...

http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0397/AEisen
staedt3.html



On 5/8/04 12:22 PM, "Oliver" <oliverbryk@iqmail.net> wrote:

> Nathan wrote:
> 
> "Today is May 8th, the day World War II ended in Europe. In many
> countries various solemn events are taking place. I will visit the
> Commonwealth cemetery near Arnhem tomorrow morning.
> 
> On this day, as a son of a Holocaust surviver, I want to remember and to
> thank the people who made victory over Nazi Germany possible:
> 
> - the Russians who lost 20 million people during the war and whose stand
> at Stalingrad was arguably the turning point of the war, certainly on
> the Eastern Front;
> 
> - the Americans who brought their military and industrial might to bear
> on the opposite side of Europe;
> 
> - and most of all, the British, who persevered during the darkest hour
> in 1940, when all of the Continent was either occupied or neutral, the
> Soviet Union had its non-aggression pact with Hitler, and the USA was
> happily neutral on the other side of the Atlantic. If Britain had
> fallen, there would have been no Western Front, no place for the USA
> from which to stage D-Day, no future for this continent.
> 
> May their sacrifices never be forgotten.
> 
> Nathan"
> 
> Thank you for posting these thoughts, Nathan. As a survivor who was near
> Berlin on that day, I share your sentiments wholeheartedly. I, too, visit
> cemeteries and memorials from those terrible years. We must never forget.
> Oliver Bryk
> 
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