A modern German passport with a surprise

The following modern German passport is an emergency passport. Issued in 2000 and valid for one year only, until 2001. The document shows no travels and comes in pristine condition. At the first look, there is nothing special to see besides being an emergency travel document. Issued on short notice because of a lost or expired travel document.

But on the second look, the green passport model, which was substituted in 1987 with the new red machine-readable EU model, reveals its curiosity. The woman’s birthplace was given as Musanga in German East Africa (GEA). Wow, what a find! 

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