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A Scottish Passport from 1857 While it may seem implausible, Scotland did, in fact, issue its own passports, and these documents are now rarely encountered….
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I am delighted to acquire a 1987 GDR Seaman book, a relic from one of the final years of its issuance, including a maritime journey…
Free France (France Libre) Diplomatic Passport
FREE FRANCE and its Free French Forces (French: France Libre et les Forces françaises libres) was the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War, and its military forces, that…
Travel In Wartime Germany With A False Passport
traveling wartime Germany passport (by Jim Grundy, Great War Forum) One of the stranger stories to be reported in Hucknall was that of a journalist,…
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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…
GDR Passport to Cuba – Youth Festival 1978, Havana
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