Indeed. There s a long standing belief that the Soviets played a sort of
grabbit, load it on a truck and run game but it was, in fact, all very orderly
and legally organised under appropriate war reparations legislation and
regulations. The Germanic origin of the Wrayflex, however, is much less proper.
Andrew Fildes
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On 16/03/2013, at 2:16 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> In short, the designs were legally obtained from Carl Zeiss, the machine
> tools were made to order for export to Kiev, and were initially set up in
> Saalfeld (not Dresden, not Jena) to demonstrate that they were fully
> functional, before being dismantled and reinstalled in Kiev. Some cameras
> were assembled in Saalfeld from the demonstration run, and some parts which
> were left over from the demonstration run were used in Kiev.
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