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Subject: [Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed, not collected
From: h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
References: <AF4EA9FA-05BF-492C-A1F2-39DFA42C5026@frozenlight.eu> <COL119-W653B8CCAA571A066016DEA82310@phx.gbl> <BFC51F3C-1BE9-4B54-9B5D-26CD588B8C10@frozenlight.eu>

I couldn't own one. 

I couldn't stomach looking through the viewfinder and sharing that with 
someone who saw things the way they did.
It's like I couldn't eat a sumptuous meal off of a Nazi place setting.


----- Original Message ----
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:25:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed, not 
collected

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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