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Subject: [Leica] Re: Rommel and Germany
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri May 27 10:01:21 2005

I have - and in some weird way they remind me of the plans for houses I
would design as a kid...fantasyland...


On 5/27/05 12:21 PM, "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:

> Obsessive is the word: did you ever see the plans they had for Berlin? That
> city was going to be the next Utopia.
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen"
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Rommel
> 
> 
>> It's not just a matter of them being shutter bugs - they were obsessive
>> about documenting everything - probably because they believed they were
>> building a new world and would be considered heroes by later generations.
>> It's a weird thing that the Nazis so thoroughly documented their worst
>> crimes- but then there were meticulous records kept of the Inquisition,
> and
>> of course in  recent times - and hardly on the same scale - we do have the
>> infamous Nixon tape. ;-)
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Re: Rommel and Germany and Speer)
In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re: Rommel and Germany)