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Erhard Milch, 1892- – Antique Print

Erhard Milch, 1892-, [between 1939 and 1945] — historic photograph
Erhard Milch, 1892-, [between 1939 and 1945]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Erhard Milch, 1892-. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Erhard Milch, 1892-

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Erhard Milch was a German aviation official whose career spanned the founding of the Luftwaffe, and this print shows him in the years when he held some of the most powerful posts in Nazi Germany's air program. Milch served as a state secretary in the Air Ministry under Hermann Göring and helped build the air force's industrial base during the late 1930s and early war years. The catalog record gives only a date range of 1939 to 1945 and notes that the caption card data is unverified, so the exact occasion of the portrait is unknown. Milch was later tried at Nuremberg's subsequent proceedings and convicted of war crimes related to slave labor, a verdict worth keeping in mind when viewing wartime portraits of him.

Created / published[between 1939 and 1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. F0415. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,103 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157772

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