[rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker
- From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:39:22 -0500
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/
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Nygren
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:14 PM
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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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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