CLASSICS
THE FAKE KRIEGSMARINE 'LEICA II'
If you like a good spy story, you'll be familiar with the operative who's unmasked as - or confesses to being - a double agent while still concealing a third identity. It can be very hard to follow. As is the story of the counterfeit German military Leicas, because these cameras aren't not just military Leicas, they're not Leicas at all. See, we're already getting caught up in double negatives.
And, it you re familiar with the story of the Hitler diaries, you'll know that, regardless of whether it's in good taste or not, there's a strong collectors market for Nazi-era memorabilia. The forger behind the Hitler diaries - Konny Kujau - reproduced a whole range of items purported to be linked to Adolf Hitler, including paintings, letters, poems and uniforms. In fact, so prolific, was his output that when experts came to authenticate the
