Part twelve of the documentary "The Cameras of the GDR and the Development of the SLR". To watch the entire documentary, here is a link to the playlist: [ Ссылка ].

In this particular video we finish our story with what happened to the industry at the end of the GDR when the whole of East Germany was "Absorbed into" West Germany.

The entire series follows the progress from the Origin in Jena, the Exakta and Praktiflex cameras, made in Dresden before WW2, through the development of the Contax S by Zeiss Ikon Jena and Dresden, and the Praktina in Dresden, how this became the Pentacon and later the Praktica of Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz (Dresden), or KW. How the various makers of lenses and cameras were consolidated at Dresden and Jena into one company, including the famous lens maker Meyer-Optik Gorlitz.

This and much more, including the movement of the intellectual property and machinery from the GDR (German Democratic Republic) to West Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Japan, with the involvement of the US Internationalists. It is an inter esting journey over 20 or so video parts, a Super Documentary, made during the winter of 2022/23 in Bromyard, UK.

Music by Lightnin' Papa Abe Ram and the Small Stones.

I hope you enjoy the videos.
Adam of Bremen-Krubally,
November 2022.

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