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CollinB

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If anyone is interested, a local store has a sealed, new R4 Jesse Owens.
Probably one of the last still-sealed in the world.
The shop wants $5K for it.
 

benjiboy

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I don't think I'll be buying one, the thought of a German company making a Jessie Owens Leica must be the ultimate irony.
 

jmooney

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In fact Ernst Leitz daughter spent a few months in Gestapo custody for helping Polish forced laborers in their factory. Google "Leica Freedom Train" before you judge the company.
 

BrianL

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I too find it ironic. Whether or not Leica supported the NAZI regime is not the issue but, that a German company honored him where in the US almost immediately after winning other than for propaganda reasons he was ignored like so many other great black Americans.
 
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