[rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker
- From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:54:24 -0500
At this point, I don't have much to compare Parker to. But I did notice some
typos that should have been weeded out by any competent editor.
Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker
At 04:39 PM 9/5/2006, Jeffery Smith 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.
Herbert von Karajan was an ardent and open
supporter of the Nazi regime to the point where
Speer and his cronies didn't trust him when using
the two Berlin symphonies to signal the need to
evacuate Berlin -- they had to get Bruno Walter
to do this, but von Karajan was left in the dark
for fear that he would denounce the mass
evacuation to the authorities. (They already had
squads of folks going around stringing those they
felt were ready to flee from the nearest
lamp-post.) Walter was a superb conductor and
interpreter, but von Karajan was angelic, despite
his demonic attraction to the Third Reich.
Parker's exuberant but false statement set out
above is just another example of why you need to
keep that salt-shaker at hand when using him as a
source. Anecdotal he is, but reliable he is not
-- I once started listing known errors in his
HISTORY, and this was long before Prochnow came
on the scene. I gave up when I reached 70
obvious errors or so and wasn't even half-way
through the book. Parker is a necessary read
but it is most dangerous to regard what he sets
out as vital unless it is verified from other sources.
Marc
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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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