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Originally Posted by harrison987
Books, photos, and documents produced during WW2 by the axis powers lost all copyright in 1945, due to the Enemy Property Act.
So it does not matter who the original company or photographer is...or if they are still alive. It also does not matter who the current owner is of the originals.
Anyone can reproduce them.
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My advice is that you'd better avoid that kind of thing with two collections: BA and ECPA-D.
The latter consider their collection as a war-booty.
The former are very agressive in terms of copyright and now threaten to sue anyone who publishes their photographs without full credit (including the photographer's name! This no joke...) and paying the reproduction rights.