WALLENBERG SCHUTZ-PASS FOR SALE
The following Schutz-Pass (or protection pass, passport, Schutzpass) is from the collection of a fellow collector, who asked me to support him in a sale. Experienced passport and Holocaust collectors […]
Congressman George V. Hansen – Iran Hostage Crisis
George V. Hansen, a flamboyant Idaho congressman who launched a quixotic one-man mission to bring back U.S. hostages from Iran and who later went to prison for violating federal ethics […]
The old German Embassy in Washington
The old German Embassy was located just west of Thomas Circle at 1435-41 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. In 1894 the German embassy occupied a new chancery at 1435 Massachusetts Avenue. That […]
US Passports for Military Personnel & Dependents
The following passport-type I see for the very first time. The document is much smaller than the standard passport and has the size of the little Seaman’s passport booklet. The […]
Scarce US Consulate Lisbon Passport 1943
US Embassies and Consulates during WWII US Consulate Lisbon 1943 There is hardly a country in Europe that was not temporarily occupied by German troops between October 1938 and May […]
Fantasy and Camouflage Passports
Currently, there are around 180 fantasy passports, camouflage passports, and documents of territories that are not internationally recognized listed. Such documents were increasingly used by migrants to attempt to enter […]
For the freedom one may even fake passports
For the freedom one may even fake passports For the freedom one may even fake passports – escaping East Germany For the German Democratic Republic (GDR), he was the number […]
Guernsey passport 1916 for a young girl
Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel near the French coast and is a self-governing British Crown dependency. It’s known for beach resorts like Cobo Bay […]
German History – The Rise And Fall Of The Berlin Wall
On this day, 59 years ago the Berlin Wall was built. A significant event for Germany and the Western world. Today, Germany will be already reunified for already 30 years […]
The Diplomatic Passport of Georg F. Duckwitz
Seventy-seven years ago, in early October 1943, the Nazi regime attempted to deport Denmark’s Jewish community as part of the “final solution,” the genocide of Europe’s Jews. The heinous plan […]