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    Ernst Leitz II (1 March 1871 – 15 June 1956) was a German business person and humanitarian. He was the second head of the optics company now known as Leica...
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  • Ernst Leitz GmbH was a German corporation based in Wetzlar, a German centre for optics as well as an important location for the precision engineering...
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    binoculars, and rifle scopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany. The name Leica is derived from...
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    Germany before the Holocaust by Ernst Leitz II of the Leica Camera company, and his daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz. Ernst Leitz's optics company, founded in Wetzlar...
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    subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar. Barnack was an engineer at the Leitz company and suffered from asthma...
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  • Camera, Leica Geosystems and Leica Microsystems – Ernst Leitz II (Leitz Camera) Leitz – Louis Leitz LeMond Racing Cycles – Greg LeMond Leslie – Donald...
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    Zielgerät 1229 (category World War II German electronics)
    Forschungsanstalt der Deutschen Reichspost (RPF). It was produced by Ernst Leitz GmbH and approximately 310 units were built. A grenadier carrying it...
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  • co-founders of Lehman Brothers Ernst Leitz II (1871–1956), owner of Leitz Camera Louis Leitz (1846–1918), founder of Leitz Carl von Linde (1842–1934), founder...
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    politician and US diplomat. Ernst Leitz (1843-1920) founded the Ernst Leitz Optical Works in Wetzlar; father of Ernst Leitz II Erich Bloch (1925–2016), computer...
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  • FG 1250 (category World War II weapons of Germany)
    According to other sources, it was developed by AEG and produced by Ernst Leitz GmbH. It consisted of a specialized mount, active infrared spotlight...
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  • (Bayer), 2008 Martha and Waitstill Sharp, 2007 Khaled Abdelwahhab, 2007 Ernst Leitz II, 2007 Mefail and Njazi Biçaku, 2007 Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV, 2006 Nicholas...
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  • produces Leica cameras. The predecessor of the company, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is now three companies: Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and...
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    fourth version of the original 35 mm Leica camera to be launched from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany. The concept was conceived by their employee Oskar...
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    The Leica copies originate from the Leica camera that was launched by Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar in 1925, using the Leica 39mm screw mount of 26 threads per...
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    mm rangefinder camera by Ernst Leitz GmbH (now Leica Camera AG), introduced in 1954. It was a new starting point for Leitz, which until then had only...
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    Tessar (redirect from Leitz Elmar)
    designs Ross Xpress (Stuart & Hasselkus, 1913) Berthiot Olor (Florian, 1913) Leitz Elmar (Berek, 1920) Biotessar (Merté & Wandersleb, 1925) Improved Tessar...
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  • Walter Mandler (10 May 1922 – 21 April 2005) was a lens designer of Ernst Leitz Canada (Leica Camera) in Midland, Ontario. Mandler is credited with the...
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  • early production M6. Features brass top and bottom plates, "Leitz" red dot logo, "ERNST LEITZ WETZLAR GERMANY" top plate engraving, M11-type abrasion-resistant...
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    världskriget" [Interwar period and World War II] (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 December 2006. Leitz, Christian (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral...
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    Retrieved 2021-03-31 – via Newspapers.com. Smith, Frank Dabba (2007). "Dr Ernst Leitz II of Wetzlar and the People He Helped During The Shoah: Research in Progress"...
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  • Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World (2013) Christian Leitz (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe: During the Second World War. Manchester...
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    Ian Kershaw (category Historians of World War II)
    1993; reprinted on pp. 231–252 from The Third Reich edited by Christian Leitz, London: Blackwell, 1999, ISBN 0-631-20700-7 Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships...
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    long-focal-length lens assemblies was pioneered by Ernst Leitz GmbH (Leitz) after World War II. Leitz laboratories discovered that lanthanum(III) oxide...
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     10. Tooze 2006, p. 181. Evans 2008, p. 333. Department of State 2016. Leitz 1998, p. 153. Taylor 1995, pp. 90–119. Kitchen 1994, pp. 39–65. Van Creveld...
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  • Hans-Adolf (1999). "The Structure of Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1945". In Leitz, Christian (ed.). The Third Reich The Essential Readings. Blackwell. pp...
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  • Overy, Richard (1999). "Germany, 'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939". In Leitz, Christian (ed.). The Third Reich. Oxford: Blackwell. Perry, Matt (1999)...
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    Ultron,: 5  a fast asymmetric double Gauss normal lens comparable to the Leitz Summicron and Zeiss Planar designs. This later was reformulated in 1968...
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    (1999). "The Structure of Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–1945". In Christian Leitz (ed.). The Third Reich: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing...
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    Danzig crisis (category Danzig in World War II)
    Overy, Richard (1999). "'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939". In Christian Leitz (ed.). The Third Reich The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 95–128...
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    World War] (in German). Vol. 1–13. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. Leitz, Christian (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World...
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