File:Himmler portrait.jpg

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Description	Heinrich Himmler, Chief of police and SS in the Third Reich. Portrait photo taken on the occasion of his 40th birthday.
Source	Released to the public by the National Digital Archive of Poland as part of their Kraków-Warszawa Press publishing house releases. https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/28082/d47c10d51739ceae4932a29884563a30/
Date	1940-10
Author	Heinrich Hoffmann
Permission (Reusing this file)	See below.

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This image from the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was originally copyrighted by the Presse Illustrationen Hoffmann (Heinrich Hoffmann, Berlin SW68 Kochstraße 10) and was seized by the US government after World War II and vested by the United States Attorney General as US government property in 1951. It is considered public domain because it was not divested to the original copyright owner and because of the ruling in Price v. United States: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth circuit, 20 November, 1995^[1] which confirmed that under US law Heinrich Hoffman items in the National Archives are not copyrighted by the original copyright owners in the US. Part of the ruling reads "The United States may dispose of items that were seized during the allied occupation of Germany as it sees fit; indeed, it has done so."

It states on [2] that

"Scholars fearful that a major source of visual material in the public domain was suddenly liable for ruinous permission fees can now breathe a sigh of relief. But one is well-served to look carefully at both Judge Hughes's initial judgment in favor of Price as well as Judge Jolly's judgment of dismissal, as both contain many illuminating details. It now seems clear that all of Heinrich Hoffmann's photographs at National Archives may be considered as being in the public domain, which means they may be used in scholarly and popular books, articles, films and television programmes without payment of permission fees to German heirs or to Billy Price"

Note that this does not apply to Heinrich Hoffmann items not in the US National Archives. The catalog record must say the item is 'Use Restrictions: unrestricted'; always list the source of the image.

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This file will not be in the public domain in both its home country and the United States until January 1, 2028 and should not be transferred to Wikimedia Commons until that date, as Commons requires that images be free in the source country and in the United States.

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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel

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