I went in after data on cameras...
Jun. 28th, 2006 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
home_and_awayhow they worked, the finer points of f-stops...that sort of thing.
I didn't anticipate a history lesson .
But it's interesting.
"It wasn't exactly a boycott, but in the late 1930s many Americans were loath to purchase German goods because of Nazi persecution of the Jews. ...When pros needed dependable, advanced cameras and lenses, they were usually talking about German cameras, principally Leica cameras made by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH. Many pros and serious amateurs bought them, reluctantly, because of the origin.
So you can imagine the personal anguish this situation might have proved in the late 1930s for a 25-year-old employee of E. Leitz, Inc. in New York, Norman C. Lipton. What excuse could a Jew give for working for a German company such as Leitz?"
Go look.
I didn't anticipate a history lesson .
But it's interesting.
"It wasn't exactly a boycott, but in the late 1930s many Americans were loath to purchase German goods because of Nazi persecution of the Jews. ...When pros needed dependable, advanced cameras and lenses, they were usually talking about German cameras, principally Leica cameras made by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH. Many pros and serious amateurs bought them, reluctantly, because of the origin.
So you can imagine the personal anguish this situation might have proved in the late 1930s for a 25-year-old employee of E. Leitz, Inc. in New York, Norman C. Lipton. What excuse could a Jew give for working for a German company such as Leitz?"
Go look.
