Two passports of an USAF airman in Middle East
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 murdered by the Nazis
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…
Israeli Passport Invalid For Germany
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…
Heinrich Barth in Central Africa 1850-1855
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…
US passport 1953 – European Command General
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 – A Woman in Berlin 1945 – Diary
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…
Warsaw Pact travel during the Cold War 1975-89
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…
US Passport 1915 – Curtiss Aeroplane Company
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…
Large Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Passport 1864
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…
The international Congo Conference – Berlin 1885
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…
Adolph von Menzel – Diplomatic passport 1842
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 1815 – 9 February 1905) was a German Realist painter and etchings artist. He is regarded as one…
Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur’s Passport
Douglas MacArthur served in the United States Army his whole life, from birth to death. His father, Arthur MacArthur Jr., led an infantry company tasked…
A pretty rare passport of Transnistria
rare passport of Transnistria This is an internal passport issued by the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (or sometimes translated as Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, PMR) – the…
Walther Ulbricht – The papers of the wall builder
“No one intends to build a wall.” This sentence has gone down in history. It was uttered in 1961 by GDR head of state Walter…
Passports, Profiteers, Police – A Swiss war secret
Not often we find books with solid content on passport history—the following book displaying such documents in crisp and large format. The topic is most…
A first hand GDR Service passport story
During research, I found this fantastic story of a GDR citizen on duty traveling to Japan. Her record is outstanding as it’s a first-hand experience…