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It was also rumoured that Leitz paid full salary for three months and half salary for the next three months. It was said that an editor of the Leica Magazine called every Leitz account in America to help place the new employees. In America, the Leitz subsidiary worked hard to find jobs for these emigrants - some with little or no English skills. After training, Leitz applied for an exit permit to send the new 'employee' to America to assist in generating sales. Each new employee was quickly trained to use and demonstrate the Leica. From there they began 'hiring' people associated with the firm who were at grave risk. Leitz began a practice of buying back stock from affected dealers, reselling it to any who emigrated to America. With the increasing intrusion of the Nazi government into business and social life, Leitz quietly began assessing the effect of government policy on its staff and German dealers, many of who were Jewish. The family supported one of the democratic political parties in Germany at the time the National Socialists gained control of the country and began their well documented punishment of their Jewish countrymen. The Leitz family, owners of the famous optical firm in Wetzlar were Protestants. A copy of the magazine is offered for sale on the internet by Old Imprints.
I first saw Fortune Magazine for Oct 1936 and the article on the 'Minicam boom' at the Bibliotheque in Montreal over 40 years ago. Note that both the spelling of Capa's birth name and how he chose the name 'Capa' vary depending on the source quoted.
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Two days later his photo hit the press and Friedmann went on to become famous as a war photographer using " Robert Capa" as his name - taken from its similarity to the name of his favourite American movie director, Frank Capra. Using his new Leica, he was for all practical purposes invisible since he was without a large format camera, the mark of a photographer. At the talk, Friedman moved right to the front row. The communist icon was famous for avoiding any attempt to take his photograph. The young Friedmann attended a talk by Trotsky in 1932. The story of the Hungarian photographer Endre Friedmann, was typical. The Leica was first announced at the 1924 Leipzig Fair, shifting emphasis from the large cameras of the 1930s to the era of the miniature camera. Once his background was established, George told some anecdotes illustrating the impact of the Leica on photography. Along the way he came across the 'Freedom Train' story. At last count he has had over 400 articles published. He was so prolific (at times he had articles in various magazines at the same time) he resorted to using a variety of pen names. He was spared from this extremely risky task when the survey project was abruptly shelved by the Army Corps of Engineers and their attention shifted to the Manhattan project.īeginning in 1950, George spent 30 years writing for the popular photographic press. This time to be dropped on Omaha beach the day before the famous JD-Day assault to measure the beach area. The ill-fated team died when the ship was sunk.įortunately George was pulled from the team at the last minute for another assignment. After his last class, George was assigned to one of the photographic field teams. The urgency was due to a lack of topographical maps of the Pacific area due to become a battle zone. At the time, a German patent described a faster way to map heights using aerial photography and mathematics. With his college aptitude for mathematics and his hands-on experience in photography, he was reassigned to the USAF to train military staff in the art of aerial mapping.
When the US joined the allies in WW2 George signed up. George left college in the 1930s to become a commercial studio apprentice.
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