Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed, not collected
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:25:13 +0200
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Yes, but the people collecting them now know who the owners were and  
what they did when not snapping pictures.
They belong in the landfill (the cameras, not the people).

Nathan Wajsman
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On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Greg Lorenzo wrote:

>
>> One of Geoff's Berlin pictures:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/g/b/b115.jpg.html
>>
>> Explains why I despise the whole Nazi-Leica collectionism as  
>> evidenced
>> in parts of LHSA and elsewhere.
>>
>> Nathan
>
>
> Unlike people, it's rather unlikely that these items know that they  
> were Nazi's.
>
>
>
> Greg Lorenzo
>
> Calgary, Canada
>
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