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Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 21:23:30 :

In Reply to: Re: Made in China posted by MoparNorm on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 09:41:34 :

Actually, the US government did exactly that. The world's best optics were, and still are, made by Karl Zeiss. During the war, the US needed excellent optic for all kinds of military equipment, so they quietly let Zeiss create a US-based subsidiary, legally separate from their German operations, to produce optics for US military contracts.



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