Leica’s legendary cameras have captured some of the most iconic images in history, including the M2 used by Alberto Korda to photograph Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in 1960. Now the company has moved back to its former home in Wetzlar.Long before the M2 was used to take that iconic photograph, though, it was Leica, rather than its photographers and their subjects, that played a starring role. Ernst Leitz II, head of the company that went on to become Leica, helped scores of Jewish employees escape the Nazis before the outbreak of the Second World War. It seems fitting, then, that Leica has returned to Leitz’s former home, the picturesque town of Wetzlar in Germany, having left the city in 1986 and spending nearly three decades in an old furniture factory at Solms, a few miles down the road…….

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