[rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker

  • From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:25:20 -0500

No, it wasn't a matter of F&H turning him in. Soon after the incident he
disappeared with other Jews to a concentration camp. I think the embarrasing
part was probably inadvertently involving a Jewish photographer in the
picture shoot after being supportive of the Nazi party.

I also wonder if the Theodore/Rolleiflex T incident really resulted in the
man being fired or if his sudden departure was unrelated.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carlos Manuel Freaza
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker


Prochnow tells that story maybe a bit different, he
mentions Ian Parker's book "Rollei TLR-The history".
F&H was working on the 9x9 third protoype, they did
only fourteen of these prototypes from hand-made
parts. The first prototype went to the photographer
Salomon Kahn who used it to photograph Adolf Hitler.
Kahn exhibited these photographs taken with the 9x9
prototype successfully, however the photographs
started to disappear when it became known that Kahn
was a jew, he soon died in a concentration camp, but
it was a Gestapo action, it was not F&H action.
F&H began to develop larger format cameras on 1930
before the nazi era with the 7x9 prototype.-

All the best
Carlos      
 --- Jeffery Smith <jls@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Rollei TLR: The History : The Complete Book on the
> Origins of Twin-Lens
> Photography
> by Ian Parker
> 
> The black eye:  When Rollei was working on the
> prototypes for a 9x9 studio
> camera, a rather pro-Nazi Rolleiflex had a
> professional photographer take
> Hitler's portrait with one of them for use in
> creating some postage stamps
> wit the Fuhrer's likeness. When it was discovered
> that the photographer was
> Jewish, everyone panicked, the photographer was
> later carted off, and the
> studio camera project was scuttled.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Nygren
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 4:56 PM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History
> by Ian Parker
> 
> 
> Thank you for the overview. What is the name of the
> book and the
> author's full name?
> 
> What was the black eye?
> Doug
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> 
> > It's a history of how Rollei got started up at the
> turn of the 20th
> > century
> > by Franke & Heidecke, their initial product line
> (stereo cameras) and
> > then
> > the subsequent history of their TLRs (through both
> wars). It's a fairly
> > quick read, but gives you some sort of insight
> into how large the
> > company
> > grew, when it reached its pinnacle, and how the
> SLR ultimately brought
> > it
> > down. A nice overview of the company's history
> with only one
> > unfortunately
> > "black eye" that occurred around WWII.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com
> > http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Nygren
> > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:16 PM
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The
> History by Ian Parker
> >
> >
> > Jeffrey: I don't know this book. Tell me more
> about it,  please.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >
> >> I just finished reading Ian Parker's book (for
> the second time...I
> >> was a Rollei neophyte the first time I read it).
> I noticed this
> >> morning that there
> >> are two copies of it for sale on e**y. If you
> live and breathe Rollei,
> >> it's
> >> a good read.
> >>
> >> Jeffery Smith
> >> New Orleans, LA
> >> http://www.400tx.com
> >> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >>
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