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

  • From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:47:41 -0500

And under Communism, manufacturers certainly did the same...  Only
Stalin's photo doesn't draw the same knee-jerk -- though by God it
should.

PJ Nebergall

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:35:38 -0400 Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> 
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 4:44 PM, John Jensen wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have a Rollei book from the 30s at home ('The Golden
> > Book'???) with numerous factory pictures in it.  One
> > is of the exterior of the factory with a hakenkreuz
> > flag on a flagpole.  Another is an interior shot with
> > a portrait on the far wall with an image suspiously
> > like that of Adolph's.  Wrong?  Well, to do otherwise
> > at the time would have caused much trouble.
> 
> During the mid 1950s, in a collection of German photo industry 
> promotional publications, I came across that same (I think) book.  
> It 
> contained a number of Rolleiflex photographs, most ordinary salon 
> type 
> pictures, but included were several flattering photos of Nazi 
> officials 
> and regalia.  These, along with the aforementioned factory view with 
> 
> Nazi flag at each corner of the building, led me to believe that 
> either/or Francke and Heidecke were ardent Nazi supporters or were 
> trying to curry favor with them.  Parker's assertions of F & H 
> complicity with German fascism was entirely consistent with this 
> because none of the other books and pamphlets made any reference to 
> the 
> regime, except perhaps for a distant ship in a harbor displaying a 
> flag, or some other unavoidable Nazi artifact.   It made sense to me 
> 
> that during the 30s, German companies trading on an international 
> market would try to avoid a touchy political controversy unless they 
> 
> had some sort of agenda.
> There is no evidence, however, that F & H or the German photo 
> industry 
> as a whole, committed war crimes and some, Leitz and Zeiss among 
> them, 
> made efforts to protect their Jewish employees.
> 
> Allen Zak
> 
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