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, status undermined or who have opted not to accept formal status of the countries they are c...
Escaping in the last minute. March 15th 1939 was another nail in the coffin for pre-war Europe. This was another event, warn...
Much has been written and said about the infamous German passports specially issued for Jews, marked with a large J...
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 ...
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, US, Australia, South America and even in the M...
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 to organize Indians to support their cause of trying to expel and re...
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. The control of the country was done by the four military powers: ...
The passport in this article was issued to Friedrich Naschitz who was born on May 21st 1900 in Vienna and was lucky to avoid the war and the Holocaust. Travel document No. 69132 was issued on December 20th 1954 by the Ministry of Interior, Tel Aviv branch (According to a foreign ...
1938 Krakau issue for a young Jewish teenager. Much has been written and said about the infamous German passports specially issued for Jews, marked with a large J at the top-left corner of the first page that came out following a Swiss request from October 5th...
French High Commission for Morocco. The French established a protectorate in Morocco that span from 1912, following the treaty of Fes, to 1956, the year of independence. The French ruled their new colony but not without opposition and unrest from within. There have been several attempts of revolt, with the Berber revolt being the most serious of them all, called also the Second Moroccan War or the Rif War, ...
