This area of the Auris archive is reserved for our members. The Auris archive makes one of the largest private photograph collections on German history – from the colonial era to the end of the Second World War – digitally accessible: carefully digitised, contextualised in a scholarly-documentary manner, and fully searchable.
The archive in numbers
8,024
images already online – with more added continuously
255,000
historical photographs from 1900 to 1950 in the collection
5,688
colour slides from 1938 to 1945
50 hrs
of historical film footage, plus war diaries and documents
A glimpse into the collections
A curated selection from the First and Second World War – click to enlarge.
All preview images carry a visible watermark and are shown in reduced resolution. Members see the archive without restrictions.
How it works
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Trial access for €1
Explore the archive for 7 days and browse the web galleries.
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Research & discover
Search by place, unit or topic – every image is described and indexed.
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High-res with Basic or Pro
Download high-resolution images without watermarks – for research, publication and teaching.
Transparency: AI-assisted cataloguing
The image descriptions are generated with AI assistance and are continuously reviewed and corrected by specialists. We explain openly how this works – and where its limits lie – on the page About the Cataloguing.
Historical context
Parts of the collection show National Socialism and the Second World War from the perspective of private photographers – including the perpetrators’ side. Publication serves scholarly research, historical education and critical engagement exclusively; it in no way constitutes approval or trivialisation. Any glorifying or propagandistic use of the images is prohibited.
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