British WWI Soldier Returns from Spanish Battlefield
Meet George Henry Herbert Morton, who has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for…
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Sebastián de Romero, a Spanish diplomat who saved Jews
Sebastián de Romero diplomat The Diplomat His name wasn’t Schindler; it was Romero. No blockbuster films recount his story, just as many other Spanish diplomats…
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A colorful passport for the Marquis de Alhama
The passport displayed here, issued to the Spanish diplomat Tomás de Ligués y Bardají, Marquis de Alhama (1812 – 1883), bears the signature of the…
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French passport issued in Spain during the Civil War
Passport Spain Civil War The Spanish Civil War, fought from 1936 to 1939, pitted the Republicans, loyal to the democratic Second Spanish Republic, against the…
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Otto Skorzeny and wife passports
Otto and Ilse Skorzeny Passports OTTO SKORZENY (1908 – 1975) Nazi officer and Hitler’s chief and favorite commando, he made a daring mountain-top rescue of…
