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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 23:55:05 +0200
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Yes, that's my line as well. I don't mind if the equipment was made  
between 1933 and 45, but I do mind if it carries an engraving  
indicating that it was made especially for the Nazi machine.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:51 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Actually, Peter, it's not. Difficult. ;-)
> Sure, if one is a hard-liner one could argue against purchasing  
> anything
> produced in German from 1933 to June of 1945. On the other hand,  
> it's a lot
> easier to say that one doesn't want to own any specifically Nazi
> paraphernalia. As there are so many Leicas and only so much money to  
> buy
> them with, why would one conceivably want to own swastika-bearing  
> Leicas?
>
>
>
>
> On 6/30/09 5:44 PM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
>
>> Nathan,
>>
>> I know what you mean. I wouldn't buy a swastika-bearing anything,  
>> for reasons
>> we
>> have discussed. Let alone anything even purporting to have SS  
>> origins. However
>> would you also decline to buy any Leica produced during the war?  
>> After all
>> there
>> were - as I understand it - Leicas that were not military issue  
>> produced
>> during
>> the period. Some of those too must have taken images of things  
>> which we would
>> rather not discuss...and then there are all those Leicas that  
>> arrived in the
>> hands of the occupying forces after the war, many of which had  
>> wartime
>> origins.
>> Many pre-war lenses may have had a similar history.
>>
>> Where would you draw the line? It's difficult.
>>
>> As ever,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman 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
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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