--- John Jensen <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: >> > Regarding the picture that I mentioned, does anyone > have a copy of the pamphlet '80 Years Rollei'? > Check > page 13 for the photo of the reception room. The > picture hanging there certainly looks like Herr > Hitler(as he NY Times would refer to any dictator, > large or small). Yes, I have that pamphlet and you are right, pages 13 and 14 are about the factory and workers on 1938, the picture in the reception room background is about Hitler, it was the more used and known "official" portrait that the law required to be exhibited as Marc explained. I think it was very honest from Rollei to show this photograph about the company history today. F&H had prestige very much on the '30s thanks to the modern F&H factory buildings, the way F&H considered their workers and the design prizes Rolleiflex and Rolleicord cameras won around the world and then the Nazi government couldn't lose the opportunity to use this prestige to their favour and the government declared the Rollei factory "Model Plant" as other similars factories were declared, it created an additional political pressure on F&H, however despite they could show an external support to the regime due to the political circumstances, they never accepted the swastika for the cameras and tried to resist some labour conditions during the war as Marc explained too. Regarding one of my messages on the topic, I'd like to clarify that Heidecke´s son died in Russia but not in Stalingrad, he died there as POW in 1946.- All the best Carlos __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list