[Andreas Brekken]

Hi.

As far as I can understand you do not have permission to publish for example scans of information from the Bundesarchiv without paying publication fees.

Most of the documenst I have gotten from them have the text 'Weitergabe an dritte nicht gestattet' (or something similar, at work now so the wording might be abit different). In essence this indicates that the information has been copied for your use and reference, not for use in for example a book.

The easiest way to get an answer is to contact them directly, I am sure the leader of the readers room, Frau Jana Brabant, will be able to answer you by mail in a day or two, concerning your particular documents and what you can and can not do in order to not be in conflict with the consent form you must have signed in order to get the copies.

Folowing up this - do you guys think that 10 - 20 - 30 Euros is a horrendous amount of cash to pay for being able to publish a photograph from the BA collections? I understand that if you are going to publish a photo book based on BA photographs only, this will be a high price to pay. On the other hand it has been a while since I have been able to secure an unpublished photo of PK quality on for example eBay for an amount like that.

In my opinion the BA does a great job (they can of course be even better, but there will always be room for enhancement in any service), keeping a service that give 'us' access to original documents from this period.

Best regards,
Andreas B