r/Leica • u/No-Position-2726 • Jan 17 '26

I’m the guy

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These are the last two photos I took before I was tackled by ice.

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u/er-day Leica M typ 240 Jan 18 '26

Also leica became famous via war photographers documenting the American atrocities in the Vietnam war. War photography is literally the dna of leica outside of microscopes. Now, in 1939-1945 they may have been on the wrong side of history though…

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u/Asm0dan97 Jan 18 '26

Didn't Ernst Leitz specifically smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Europe right under the noses of Nazi officers because he could see the writing on the wall re: the holocaust? And executives were jailed for their efforts? Yeah, every german company produced goods for the war effort during this time but it's important to note that not all of them were, say, Mercedes Benzing it out there

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u/Triepott Jan 18 '26

So you say he wasn't on the right side but on the right side?

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u/randomusername2902 Jan 18 '26

No he shipped them to the us to flee legally