Outstanding Diplomatic passport for Beijing
One of the earliest official passports used for the PRC. Early 1950 issued passport for Beijing. Used during the Korean War and at the height of the Cold War as well....
Chinese puppet regime passport
The Axis coalition mainly consisted of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan...
Post-war Brazilian passport
1949 Issued for a stateless individual. Besides having the option to issue regular, diplomatic or service passports to their citizens, countries also have the capability to issue travel documents to those who do not have that luxury, of being a citizen, those who are refugees,...
Last train out of Prague – 1939
Escaping in the last minute. March 15th 1939 was another nail in the coffin for pre-war Europe. This was another event, warn...
February 16, 2020
Passport & Wehrpass
Much has been written and said about the infamous German passports specially issued for Jews, marked with a large J...
UNRRA official in Mukden
1946 US passport for a possible intelligence officer. My interest got very strong to the occupation of north-eastern China known as 东北, the area where the Manchurian minority was living for centuries. The area, rich in minerals ...
SS officer who never stood on trial
1948 post-war issued passport to a former SS Standartenführer. Today it has become a known fact that many former SS and Nazi party members avoided trial and imprisonment after the war. Majority of them lived in relatively safe and calm conditions around the world: Canada,...
Indian Independence League
Japanese occupation travel document. This was a political organization that was active after World War One and up to the 1940's, during the Second World War. Its activities and members were located outside of the British Empire, in South East Asia, and they were trying...
U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (USHCG)
1952 issued Special passport. The planning for the occupation of Germany began in early 1944 by the European Advisory Commission, based in London, and actual preparations for the post-war occupation began after the Allies started entering sections of the country in September of that year....
WW2 Diplomatenpass
1944 Superb German Diplomatic passport. When it comes to rarities and exquisite examples relating to travel documents,...