…but I know disinformation when I see it.

Can you believe this guy?

How many more people are going to buy into this ‘Freedom Train’ disinformation? This appalling apologia has now been around for some fifty years.

This is the same Leica company that gave us the Luftwaffe Leica, provided optics for Panzer tanks and most certainly did not depart Wetzlar for moral shores in 1939. Nor did it look to leave during the largest military build up the world has seen in the period 1933-39, being a major supplier of optics to their government. It’s not like they had no warning….

“Boy, oh boy, Ernst. Did you see the P&L this quarter? Are those Wehrmacht orders something, or what?”

I would have posted this comment in this writer’s web site but, predictably, comments are not possible. Why would they be when you write naïve nonsense like this?

Mr. ‘Conscientious’ should find his conscience and question what he reads before repeating it as fact. That’s the sort of ‘reporting’ you find in most of today’s newspapers. Until you learn to question what you read, Mr. C, please stick to photography.

But of course we know that the Leitz company did not collaborate with the Nazis, they were only following orders and they really love their country, etc., etc. As this advertisement from the November 1942 edition of Foto Beobachter confirms – a perfect match for that Luftwaffe Leica:

Look, Leicas are nice, but let’s not deny history.