Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] WW II Leicas
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Fri May 27 15:30:24 2005
 
Afterswift@aol.com writes in part:
>
> The first camera I ever had was a Balda my brother in law 
> picked up from a dead Nazi in North Africa. 

If this camera was in fact "liberated" from a dead German in North Africa it 
is rather unlikely that he was a "dead Nazi".

More likely a conscript in the German Afrika Panzer Army, be he German or 
Italian. 

Regards,

Greg