Minox was made in Latvia

The famous Minox miniature “spy” camera was developed and manufactured by Latvian engineer Walter Zapp in Riga, Latvia. The first production model was even named for the city.
Zapp created the camera in 1936, but the first commercial model—the “Riga”—was made in 1938 and carried a “Made in Latvia” marking.
Walter Zapp wanted to create a portable camera that would fit easily into the palm of the hand and yet take high quality, spontaneous pictures. The Minox subminiature camera, in its various models, was for years the world’s most widely used spy camera . Considered a marvel of technology when it first became available, the camera was originally produced from 1937 - 1944 in Riga. It used film one quarter the size of standard 35 mm film, with 50 frames loaded in a cassette.