Chinese passport issued in Nazi Germany
Issued to a couple living in Berlin before the war.
Was lucky enough to locate and add to my collection this fine rare Chinese passport, issued in 1934.
It is nicely used for Europe up to 1938, with Austrian, Polish & British visas, also with entries briefly to Switzerland.
An article later on with more details will follow, enjoy the images for now…
Thank you for reading “Our Passports”.
Andrew Marchese
This is fascinating! In Chinese it says “Chinese surname unknown” leading me to believe he was the son of a Chinese sailor and a German women who didn’t have a lasting union. There were many single Chinese sailors in Hamburg and Bremen on British vessels typically in the early 1900s. He had Chinese nationality under Chinese law and could thus get a passport. There is also no Chinese domicile listed, only “Berlin” which is strange cause usually if known they would record the father or grandfathers place of birth/hometown in that column. Very unusual.