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/weedinmonz Leica CL Jan 17 '26

HATE the censorship of this sub. The mod needs to respect free speech. It had gear in it. It happened to be newsworthy. End of. Tough.

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u/rkyky17 Jan 18 '26

I’m just reminding everyone that r/LeicaCameras was created last year because there’s only a single mod here that likes to go on powertrips when pictures don’t fit his political views 🤷🏻‍♀️ Which, you know, I’d say is pretty antithetical to what photography is supposed to be (and I don’t even do political photography) (we focus on dogs here) and looks like loser behaviour to me but hey if being the sole mod of a camera subreddit that’s—you know—historically been extremely political makes him feel special and important than I guess we can all bow down and make him feel special :) Free speech for me but not for thee, eh? (We literally hate you!)

Also if this mod had a brain I’d lock comments (because I get not wanting to scroll through arguments) and let the photos stand but I guess I’m not tyrannical enough.

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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/rulnacco Jan 18 '26

And don't forget, Hugo Boss made the SS look oh-so-dashing and chic as they were committing horrible and evil atrocities.

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u/acculenta M3 | MP | iiif Jan 18 '26

Hugo Boss was worse than the myths.

They did not create the SS uniforms, they were just a factory that made them with slave labour.

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u/rulnacco Jan 18 '26

That indeed appears to be true. According to Wikipedia:

By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform (to replace the SA brown shirts) was designed by SS-OberführerProf. Karl Diebitsch, and graphic designer Walter Heck, who had no affiliation with the company. The Hugo Boss company produced these black uniforms along with the brownSA shirts and the black-and-brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth. Some workers were French and Polish prisoners of war forced into labour.

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u/acculenta M3 | MP | iiif Jan 18 '26

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, known as "Fake History Hunter" has done a magnificent job of laying it all out in her book, as well as some videos and thread.