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File:Rudolf Hoess, Auschwitz. Album Höcker (cropped).jpg

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Author
Bernhard Walther or Ernst Hofmann or Karl-Friedrich Höcker
Description
English: Auschwitz, Poland, Three SS officers socialize on the grounds of the SS retreat outside of Auschwitz, at “Solahütte”, 1944. From left to right they are: Richard Baer (Commandant of Auschwitz), Dr. Josef Mengele and Rudolf Hoess (the former Auschwitz Commandant).
Date 1944
date QS:P571,+1944-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
34753
Object history The photograph album was found by an unidentified American counterintelligence officer who was billeted in Frankfurt after Germany's surrender in 1945.
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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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