On this day, 45 years ago, Voigtländer closed it´s doors

[Bille]

German SPIEGEL from 1971
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43175396.html

Google translation
https://translate.google.de/transla...egel/print/d-43175396.html&edit-text=&act=url

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

Yes, quite exactly like today in our Western economy, it had *nothing* to do with the allegedly «socialist» labour market in (then) West-Germany.

It was simply a lot of wrong decisions of the upper management who were completely unable to react properly what the audiences were demanding.