[Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed,

[dnygr at cshore.com (Douglas Nygren)]

Someone wrote: "Unlike people, it's rather unlikely that these items 
know that they were Nazi's."

For me, it's irrelevant whether the items knew or didn't know. For me, 
it's the association with the Nazis that creates immense revulsion. I 
can find no pleasure in something tainted by them. The associations 
spoil it.

Objects that bear the Swastika upset me, as do objects that have the 
old East German symbols. I know too many people who were hurt by the 
Nazis, including my great-grandfather whom the Prussians treated poorly 
as well.

As for East German symbols, I know all too well what they did. I think 
all the time about a friend's girlfriend who essentially was killed by 
the security forces for being caught while attempting to escape the 
DDR.

I think its best to leave national symbols off of things. There is 
hardly a country in the world that hasn't done something reprehensible 
at one time or another.

Doug