This is a vintage photograph depicting Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking officials in military attire. The photograph captures a formal event, possibly a state occasion or military ceremony, with the subjects wearing long, belted overcoats and peaked caps. The image has a sepia tone, typical of photographs from the World War II era.

Sipho - Adolf Hitler and Erhard Milch during the state funeral, 1941
Photo is dated: 23.11.41 and 1 Dec 1941
gelatin silver print
Photo size: 13 x 18.2 cm
Annotation and stamps on reverse
Very good condition

Very rare photo by Sipho

Provenence:
- Collection of B. L. Davis
- A. Stanic Collection

Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who oversaw the development of the German air force (Luftwaffe) as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany (1933-1945) following World War I (1914-1918). He served as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation from May 1933 until June 1944 and as Inspector General of the air force from February 1939 to January 1945. During most of World War II he was in charge of German aircraft production and supply. In the Milch Trial of 1947, a U.S. military court convicted Milch of war crimes and of crimes against humanity, sentencing him to life imprisonment. However, in 1951 John J. McCloy, the U. S. High Commissioner for Germany, commuted Milch's sentence to 15 years. Paroled in 1954, Milch died in 1972.

Milch was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist who served in the Imperial German Navy, and Clara, née Vetter. The Gestapo later investigated Milch due to his Jewish heritage. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Milch would have been categorized as mixed race (mischling). However, he would not have been considered Jewish according to that religion's orthodoxy (or halakha), which states that a person’s Jewish status is passed down through the mother.