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What We're Reading: How Leica Sabotaged the Third Reich and Became a Cult Camera

By David Schonauer   Wednesday April 9, 2025


Above: the Leica 1 Model A
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One hundred years ago, at a trade fair in Germany, an optical-instrument company from a small town near Frankfurt quietly launched a novel camera that one of its engineers, Oskar Barnack, had been working on for more than a decade.

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