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Josef Mengele. Source: http://www.gesch.med.uni-erlangen.de/gewissen/ausstell/zwill/text_03.htm.

The article at uni-erlangen.de states:

Dr. Josef Mengele
Photographie, 1943, Gedenkstätte und Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Neg.-Nr. 21383/12 (digital bearbeitet)
Mengele, SS-Arzt im KZ Auschwitz, in der Uniform eines
Hauptsturmführers.

Translation to English:
Dr. Josef Mengele 
Photograph, taken 1943,
From Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial Musuem, Neg. - NR. 21383/12
(digitally worked on) 
Mengele, a SS-physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the uniform of a Captain

Is this image free?--AI 11:24, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

• No. But it is probably fair use. Its copyright is likely held by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. --Fastfission 00:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Is it legal to use ont the encyclopedia?

Link9er 15:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

• • • Yes it would be within fair use, a live person's photograph can be obtained but a dead one cannot, I've removed the tagEpson291 19:34, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Josef Mengele" : To illustrate the subject in question Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]), qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights. To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Josef Mengele

This image is being used to show a deceased historic figure in context for use in an non-commercial informational article discussing the figure. There is no free alternative available. It is believed use of this low resolution frame will have no financial impact on the copyright holder.

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