Contax Jena Stereo base plate engraved 'MADE IN

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Contax Jena Stereo base plate engraved 'MADE INThe Jena Contax was made by Carl Zeiss Jena, in Saalfeld, Germany under direction of the Soviet government after World War II. In the time leading up to Germany? s loss in the war, the Soviet Union had eyed the Zeiss Ikon Contax for war reparations and wanted to build their own copy of it in Kiev. Before they could do that, they first needed to recreate the assembly lines and learn how to build it. A special team of Zeiss employees, under Soviet