60 Years Berlin Wall August 13, 1961, 8:10 a.m. Interzonenzug D 151 leaves Munich on time for East Berlin. Most of the passengers are on their way back to their homeland, the GDR. Suddenly, a rumor makes the rounds on…
He studied in Moscow; his political career began in the 1930s when he became a party official, a position for which he was jailed. He fled to the Netherlands and returned to Berlin with a Dutch passport in 1935 by…
passport issues East Germany While reviewing my East German (GDR) passport collection I found out that I have far more documents than on my collection list. I guess I was a bit sloppy documenting all my acquisitions over the years….
John Hans Krebs Passport John Hans Krebs (December 17, 1926 – November 10, 2014) was an Israeli-American politician and attorney who served in the United States Congress from 1975 to 1979, representing California’s 17th congressional district. Krebs, who was born…
Text and pictures by Zbyšek Šustek Bohemia Moravia Passport Just one day after the Nazi’s occupation of the rest of Bohemia and Moravia, the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs was dissolved on 16 March 1939. All Czechoslovak embassies were to…
Part V (last part) German colonial empire aftermaths The End of the German Colonial Empire in International Law. Global Reorganization and Transnational Debates in the 1920s and Their Aftermaths. On June 28, 1919, Germany signed the Versailles Peace Treaty, thereby…
Ernst Munzinger Passport – Member of the 20 July Plot The following passport is of the utmost importance in German history as its bearer was a conspirator in the German Resistance and a member of the 20 July plot against…
This is one of many items coming from a huge archive previously belonging to Sir Somerville Arthur Gurney [1835-1917] including a large amount of ancestry regarding the Norfolk GURNEY family history, 12 journals [1790-1820], 100 letters, 250 loose photographs, 25…
Passport Fees World 2021 Passports are a necessity in today’s global world, and so are the fees someone has to pay for a travel document. In the best case, you pay this fee only every ten years, as this is…
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