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…

What you see here is a rare travel document of the Soviet Military Administration, Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), Berlin-Karlshorst 1947 for a Lieutenant Colonel traveling…

Part IV – German New Guinea At the beginning of the 1880s, the German government was still skeptical about some businessmen around Adolph von Hansemann,…

NS-German passport issued to a “Telegraph Inspector” with visa to France. German Passport 1937 Koenigsberg Special here is this passport was issued in Königsberg, which…

When I visited my friend Andi in 2013 in Dresden, we also visited the DDR Museum in Pirna. Some time ago, I joined a FB…

This more than one hundred and sixty-year-old passport (large double-folio) from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is a scarce document issued at their Embassy in…

USAF soldier Middle East Junius M. “Sonny” Cox, 83, of Greenville, passed away on August 13, 2013. Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, he was the son…

Ferdinand von Bredow, born on 16 May 1884, murdered on the night of 30 June 1934, headed the Minister’s Office in the Reich Ministry of…

Early Israeli Passport Germany Over the years, I collected several Israeli passports, including the old British Palestine passports, but not often find such early types…

Part II – History of German Colonization in Africa Heinrich Barth Central Africa Without a doubt, Heinrich Barth is one of the best-known German explorers…

This magnificent Special Passport of a significant US commander who served in two world wars was just recently made available online. Regrettably, I was unable…

Anonymous Woman Berlin Diary For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life…

Throughout its existence, the Warsaw Pact aimed to portray a unified and allied front against the West, even after the Hungarian and Czechoslovak uprisings of…

Passport Curtiss Aeroplane Company Marietta Ford Russell, the wife of Frank Henry Russell, an early aviator and vice president of the Curtiss Aeroplane Company, owned…

Grand Duchy Oldenburg Passport The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg was a German Confederation region re-established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. During the Danish-German…

This article is inspired by Germany’s official statement to take responsibility for killing about 70.000 Herero and Nama between 1904 and 1908. Germany formally declared…