The expulsion of Germans from liberated countries. One of the outcomes to the end of hostilities in Europe of 1945 was the mass reprisals and expulsion of Germans from liberated European countries. The horrific occupation and treatment of c...
4th edition and one of the first to appear in 1952. Israel’s first travel documents appeared at the end of 1948 but they were not deemed as a "passport" but rather as a travel document or Laissez-Passer. This can be tried to be explained by...
Issued to diplomats while serving abroad. Though not a passport, these types of documents were used by diplomats while stationed and serving abroad. Th...
Truly a strange passport indeed. Traveling to Iran during the war. Issued to German business man Friedriech Bruns in 1941, Hannover, it was used to travel to Iran. ...
Up to the end of 1941, the United States was not at war but a neutral power. Prior to Pearl Harbor the US enacted the Neutrality Act of 1939, on November 4th, following the German invasion of Poland the Britain with France declaring war on...
used for 6 years throughout the entire war. Very interesting document issued days before the eruption of hostilities...
1942 Kunming issued military ID. The conflict in the Far East had several important fronts and areas of battle. One important location was the region between British India and Western China, still under National Government control, and Japanese occupied Burma, which saw some of t...
Israel's "first" travel permits for overseas. The document here was most likely printed around April or May of 1948 and was meant to be used as a travel document or together with a passport (British or foreign) for leaving the Mandate during the interim period...
US diplomatic mission in Spain. A lovely early Americana official State Department related circular. The document was hand written and signed by US senior diplomat to Spain George W. Erving (1769-1850). His posting to Madrid, as Chargי d'Affaires (the ‘ambassador’ was James Bowdoin III), started...
