Re: Nazi War Posters

On Thu, Oct 29, 1998, Mike Holderness <mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Michael A. Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
> >
> > I want to write a paper discussing propaganda, and illustrate it
> > with contemporary material. I have located some Web sites with
> > images of these posters. Is there any problem with using them?
>
> Clearly, there may be a problem, in that all the authors/designers
> died 53 years ago or more recently, and under current German law their
> rights are inalienable (even to the NSDAP?!). It would be entirely
> comprehensible for the estates of some of the authors/designers to
> wish to suppress the works, whose reproductions are clearly
> detrimental to the reputations of the authors. However, it would
> be more rational for them to exercise the corollary to the right
> of identification by insisting on anonymity.
>
> However, in the real world... the joke about the masochist and the
> sadist is so apposite that I fear it's tasteless in this context.

Well, do you know of any sources for good images of German, Italian, and Russian propaganda posters from the 20's and 30's?

Michael A Scarpitti
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e-mail mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org Received on Fri Oct 30 1998 - 16:22:21 GMT