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

  • From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:52:26 -0500

Cute. :-)

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



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Sake or sake??  (sorry for the bad pun)

John

--- Jeffery Smith <jls@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Parker's exact wording is "The firm Franke &
> Heidecke were ardent and proud
> supporters of Hitler's National Socialist Party and
> I would quickly hasten
> to add that many other German industrialists also
> supported Hitler, and with
> large sums of money."
> 
> One fellow from the LUG asked me how I could
> possible listen to music
> conducted by Herbert Von Karajan as he was not
> opposed to Hitler. I suppose
> that it is the same reason why I drive Japanese
> cars. I'm not buying them
> for Japan's sake. I'm buying them for my sake.
> 
> 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 9:14 PM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History
> by Ian Parker
> 
> 
> One more question: who you mention "after being
> supportive of the Nazi
> party." Who was? When?
> 
> There were lots of Nazis, but not everyone was.
> There are lots of
> Americans who support the war in Iraq, but not
> everyone does. One has 
> be to exact here. Leica apparently wasn't a big
> follower, though I 
> haven't studied this thoroughly. It would seem
> Bechstein lost their 
> factory as a result of the Nazis. They never were
> the same after the 
> war.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> 
> > 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-----
> > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Carlos Manuel
> > Freaza
> > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:58 PM
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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
> >>>
> >>>
> 
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