German Passport 1646 – Duchess of Hesse
German passport duchess 1646 A very rare and early identification document from the final phase of the Thirty Years’ War for a duchess’s messenger to…
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…
Romanian Minister murdered by the Iron Guards
Romanian Minister Iron Guards Victor Iamandi was born on 15 Feb 1891 in Hodora village, town Cotnari, Iasi county and died between 26 and 27…
MfS passport control at the inner-German border
60 years Berlin Wall MfS passport control From 1964 at the latest, MfS employees of the later passport and control units of HA VI, dressed…
Interzonal Train D151 – 13 Aug 1961 – Berlin Wall
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…
The man behind the pseudonym Marten Tjaden
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…
Early East German 1950s Passports
early East German passports While reviewing my East German (GDR) passport collection, I found out that I have far more documents than on my collection…
US Congressman John Hans Krebs Passport
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…
A unique Bohemia and Moravia Passport 1939
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…
The German Colonial Empire and its Aftermaths
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…
French passport 1789 for a Belgian Diplomat
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…
Travel Document Soviet Occupation Berlin 1947
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…
The South Sea Colony German New Guinea
Part IV – German New Guinea At the beginning of the 1880s, the German government was still skeptical about some businessmen around Adolph von Hansemann,…
German Passport 1937 Koenigsberg
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…
GDR ID-Card Stalinstadt (DDR-Museum in Pirna)
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…
Mecklenburg-Schwerin Consular Passport
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…