[rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:57:57 -0400
At 10:21 AM 9/6/2006, Allen Zak wrote:
On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Marc James Small wrote:
B&H, and all of the other German optical firms,
were under severe strictures after 1933 as to
what they were permitted to print. I have a
LOT of Prewar Zeiss and F&H and Leitz
literatrure minus any national flags and the
like, but these are the English-language
editions. The German-language editions are a
bit different by more then ein bischen.
The books and brochures to which I referred were
all English language versions.
Go figuree: businessmen attempt to survive in
a hostile environment and you immediately damn
them as fellow-travellers. You really ought to
re-read your copy of Lenin: he spoke at length on this point.
Which writings by Lenin do you have in mind?
Allen Zak
A;;em
You are REALLY starting to annoy me. ALL Franke
& Heidecke publications were subject to
censorship. Publications put out by their US
agency were subject to censorship. Why do you
not LEARN how dictatorships work before tossing
out futile comments about culpabilities? The
company had NO CHOICE. They published these
pictures or they were out of business and the
families were in concentration camps. What more
do you want? You and I have never experienced
this but I have interviewed hundreds of folks who
were there, and the answer is that you did what was necessary to survive.
As to Lenin, read his writings: he wrote
repetitively about his perception that the Middle
Class was the true enemy of the Proletariat and
that the factory owner was the worst of that
lot. And he warned, in many points, that factory
owners and managers would do their best to seem
to adapt themselves to the New Regime, once the
Revolution had come (In the end, most Russian
Imperial factory managers kept their jobs under
the Soviets, proving yet again the dishonesty in Lenin's rants.)
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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