Manchurian transit visa from Japan. Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that was singed at the end of August of that year, it was now possible for Germans, who wanted to return home either for family reunions or short brief business trips, to transit...
Issued to diplomats while serving abroad. Though not a passport, these types of documents were used by diplomats while stationed and serving abroad. Th...
Used by famed chemist Leon Paweł Marchlewski. 1920's early official Foreign Ministry Polish passport No. 559/27 was issued to ...
Official used passport for negotiations. This part of history is not that known. It does not fall under the First World War or the Second World War either. But it is connected to the former and it did affect the relations of the two countries...
Here is an interesting passport, which has strong connections to the 50 years celebrated these days between Israel and Germany, due to officially establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries....
Austrian first attempts of issuing ID's & travel documents. Austria was under German occupation from March 1938 to April 1945. The German take-over of the small country is termed as the Anschluss, and once under Nazi control, the Jews suffered the worst vile anti-Semitism since...
Fremdenpass samples from Nazi Germany. Non-Germans who were not citizens, and wanted to go aboard, be it for travel or emigration, where issued these travel documents (special passports for foreigners). Pre-1933 Germany housed thousands of non-German...
1955 US Special passport. Issued to an official working for the USOM stationed in Baghdad during the Cold War....
Former Roosevelt Government official. SP number 24041 was issued to him on the capacity of being the "Administrator of rural electrification administration (REA), department of agriculture, is proceeding abroad on official business"....
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...
