History

Swiss Collective Passport Such a Collective Passport 1951 for members of a gymnastic club is extraordinary. Nowadays, they are no longer issued (except in the…

My German Third Reich passport found in Shanghai (by PETER NASH, Sydney) Sitting at the computer, my wife Rieke knew something special had come into…

Benito Mussolini Passport His old passport was offered in 1922 for a sale price of £500. Interesting press photo…see full description on the pictures below……

First Passport Federal Germany As a genuine researcher and collector of German passports, it gives me today a great pleasure to display (one) of the…

I have already written several articles about Carl Lutz, the Swiss Vice-Consul who saved many Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. But today,…

The Native Americans, a brief introduction The great expansion into the American West, which began in the 1840s, transformed America. This expansion across the Great…

My friend Mat pointed me to a captivating GDR passport from 1983 with visas to unusual destinations. The bearer was Prof. Dr. med. Dieter W….

Albert Göring was Hermann’s anti-Nazi brother. Hermann Göring was an infamous Nazi, his brother Albert a secret savior of Jews and dissidents. The remarkable story…

Books on passport history are limited, and it’s always fantastic when a new book on the topic comes up. Albert Baiburin’s book about THE SOVIET…

Wolfgang Jakob Franz Ludwig Lukschy born on October 19, 1905, in Charlottenburg and passing away on July 10, 1983, in Berlin, was a prominent German…

77 years end of WWII Usually, I do not collect such documents, but this ID got my attention as such WWII Russian documents are not…

My website is online for over a decade, and I got many requests from readers offering documents. The email I got these days was indeed…

East German Couple Cuba In the planned economy, travel was organized and subsidized by the state. The largest travel providers in the GDR were the…

After World War I and during the gradual break-up of Austria-Hungary, the city at first became a part of the transient “Eastern Slovak Republic,” declared…

British passports were the only travel documents that didn’t physically describe their bearer. But Daisy’s passport already had a passport photo at a time when…