[harrison987]

To answer your questions...

Normally copyright is passed on to family if original photographer passes away, or gives the photo to another party (with documentation) and gives up copyright.

However, all German photos (planes, equipment, personnel, etc.) lost copyright after the war and became public domain due to the War Properties Act.

Owning a photo does not give anyone a copyright on it. IF there a photo does not fall into the War Properties Act, copyright would still be impossible to obtain, as the owner would have to have documentation, the ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHER gave it to them.

Of course, I am not saying, "don't give credit' to who owns the photo...I was only commenting that giving credit is not a huge deal as 99.9% there is no copyright on it anyway.