Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:32 PM 5/30/05 -0400, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >Thanks for your clarification of Leica's WW2 history. I got much of my >information on the Leica situation directly from Emil Keller in the late >'80s when I was doing a study on the effectiveness or lack of >effectiveness of WW2 bombing on military production. It IS odd that Emil would have given you one version of the tale and me another, especially as he struck me as a very honest man. It is even odder that COL Nelson tells the tale the way I related it. Though neither Keller nor Nelson were eye-witnesses, Tink Ewald was there, in person, and told the tale to me, and to others, on many occasions -- and Tink, incidentally, was a founding member of the LHSA and remained a member until his death. If you wish, I can put you in touch with his sons, who will simply tell you the same story, with some embellishments which I have left out as being unnecessary to the basic story. No one denies that Else (again, please note the spelling) cycled out alone to meet the US forces but her contact with them was some hours after Dumur had flown the Swiss flag over the plant which had cauised the problem for the advancing US forces. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505