Bundesarchiv Material in Public Domain

[Franek Grabowski]

Andreas, you must be kidding! Both their prices and general policy are just ridiculous. A royalty here in Poland is about 25 Euros per page, so a single photo is more than that, and please do not forget 2-3 photos are the minimum for such a volume.
I think you are missing the point of archive's existence. National archive in general should store archive material and make it available for interested parties, that is why they get money from tax-payers. Instead of that BA is limiting access to the stuff, demanding excessive fees and paperwork.
Important note is that their holdings are not copyrighted since the end of the war, so it makes the situation even more crazy and ridiculous.
On the other hand, I have heard that they have destroyed their vast collection of original negatives due to nitrocelulose content, and their copy negatives are a far cry form the originals.