Image: Eichmann, Adolf
Description: SS Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), who played a central role in the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. This photograph shows him in his Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) uniform, with four silver pips and a stripe on the left collar. He became Obersturmbannführer on 9 November 1941 (for the date, Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945, Oxford University Press, 1990 [1987], p. 315).
Title: Eichmann, Adolf
Credit: Yad Vashem (see here, and here for a version with a signature); the caption of this image on another page (link doesn't work) reads "Eichmann, RSHA (Reich Central Security Office), 1942, Collection Archive, Yad Vashem Archives."The image is also available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, crediting DIZ Muenchen GMBH, Sueddeutscher Verlag Bilderdienst. The latter credits "S. M." Photograph number (Bild-ID): 126367.
Author: Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Museum do not name an author.The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek website attributes the image to Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) (image: hoff-895; negative: Hoffmann 8841), a German photographer who was known as Hitler's personal photographer. The library obtained the negative and a copy of the image as part of a collection purchased from Hoffmann's son in 1993. Following an inquiry from a Wikipedian in 2014, the library checked the negative and confirmed "with certainty" that this is not one of Hoffmann's images. His negatives were made of glass and had identifying numbers etched onto them. The library said they cannot determine the authorship of the Eichmann negative.
Permission: The date of first publication is not known. See Hirtle chart for how to determine status.The image may be in the public domain in the United States and United Kingdom as seized enemy property. (See "17 U.S. Code § 104A - Copyright in restored works", Legal Information Institute; "Captured German Records and the Berlin Document Center" and Eichmann file, National Archives.)
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