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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Nazi-stamped maps
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005
From: Derrick Beckner <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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They probably do have a copyright claim since the Third Reich was a
legitimate predecessor to the current German government. However, it's not
like Hitler asked the Ordnance Survey for copyright permission when he
republished their maps. :)
>I would be interested to know if anyone on the list has any thoughts or
>information about the copyright on this material. Until recently we were
>under the impression that the copyright resided with the Third Reich and
>as this entity no longer exists the copyright was no longer valid.
>However, we have noticed lately some examples of this material being used
>as illustrations and the German government being credited. Any thoughts?
>
>Regards,
>April
>
>April Carlucci
>Cataloguing Manager and Curator of Modern Maps
>British Library Map Collections
>
>
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>Subject: Nazi-stamped maps
>Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005
>From: Michael Fry <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: University of Maryland Libraries
>To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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>I recently discovered that some of the older European topo maps in our
>collection have been stamped
>with Nazi insignia (i.e., an eagle, wings spread, standing on or grasping
>a wreath w/ a swastika
>inside) and the words "Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme" and "Kartensammlung"
>(roughly translated, I
>think, as "Reich's Agency for Surveying" and "map collections"). The
>particular sheet in front of
>me, Basel-Laufen from a 1936 "Topographischer Atlas der Schweiz," also has
>"S.282" and "22.[???]
>1937" just to the left of the eagle. (I don't know if these are *related*
>to the eagle, but they're
>in the same color ink.)
>
>In addition, there's also this stamp:
>CIA Map Branch
>Received
>Feb 25, 1949
>
>According to Carlos Hagen's "Map Libraries and the Armed Services--A Story
>of Uneven Relationships,"
>some of the maps distributed by the Army Map Service were "captured from
>Axis Powers." Is this the
>likely source of the sheet I'm looking at? Are maps with the Nazi insignia
>considered rare or
>valuable (and possibly worth removing from open access), or simply
>historically interesting artifacts?
>
>Thanks for any insight you can provide.
>
>mf
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>Michael Fry
>Government Documents & Maps Librarian
>University of Maryland Libraries
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Derrick Beckner
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