history of Frank & Heidecke

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Just finished reading ‘The Classic Rollei’ by John Phillips.
In my opinion it is a very well documented book, written in a pleasant style. Containing an enormous amount of detailed information on all the classic Rolleiflexes and -cords and all the accessories. I enjoyed reading it a lot.
But it did not totally satisfy all my cursiosity on some of the aspects of the subject.

For example: I was hoping to find out more about the history of the F & H company. And I would have loved reading more about the cooperation and interaction between Herr Franke and Herr Heidecke during those important first years of the company.
In my opinion there is very little on how the company was influenced by the Nazi-regime and later by the war.
It might be my personal interest in/fascination with history in general. And it might be that these aspects of the F & H history are beyond the scope of a book of this kind.
But like I said, the book did leave me with a lot of questions.
Does any member have a tip on further reading on these aspects of the F&H history?

[JanBoettcher]

Try to get the Rollei-Report by Claus Prochnow.

There are 5 books plus a "technical Report", books #1 and #2 cover the early years.
Text ist German (I heard of an English supplement, but am not sure),
maybe not everything covered "in fll detail", but pretty good.

Plus http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollei (the English version sucks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollei )

[LVL]

Thanks for the link to the Rollei wikipedia-page in German!
I did not think of visiting that page before.
Indeed there is so much more information than on the English version!

And yes, I have heard of Claus Prochnow's Rollei Report-books.
I had the impression that books #1 and 2 were out of stock.
Maybe I have to look a bit harder then…

[JanBoettcher]

In case you are desperate enough, you could look on eBay, zvab, amazon or ask me