The Ratline
Post-war escape route out of Europe. What has become known today by historians, researchers and WW2 enthusiasts as one of the most infamous escape methods used by war criminals...
Double J stamped German passport
Rare 1942 (!) consular issue. When it comes to German J stamped...
Israeli service passport from 1951
Used by the famed Dayan family for official business. Israeli service passports were issued with specific connection to vital government business when t...
RSI consular travel document
1944 Vienna issued for returning back home. Beautiful and RARE travel document issued to an Italian foreign worker in Nazi Germany for the return back home. The RSI ...
Important Diplomatic passport for Budapest
1944 Turkish travel document issued for use in occupied Hungary. One of the darkest moments in Jewish modern history was the systematic destruction of Hungary's Jewish community in 1944....
Passport with life-saving visa by Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Fall of France and the race to safety. By 1940 the conditions for Jews in Europe were getting worse by the day. Be it in direct German control, axis countries or even in neighboring relatively safer places, Jews were being hunted or under threat. It was not safe. Europe was no longer ...
Military attaché to Kabul
WW2 rarity – special passport for Afghanistan. We are all familiar with the various official passports and travel documents that were issued to be used in Europe during the war and more when it comes to German or Allied i...
In Japanese internment camp
US citizen in the Far East. When it comes to rarities and exquisite examples relating to travel documents...
Entertaining the soldiers at the front – 1941
This article in the past has atracted great interest, so I have decided to run it again. WW2 German passport belonging to an actor entertaining on the front. One of the most bizarre or odd passports I have seen connected to the Second World War. Don’t get me wrong. Entertaining ones army is not something new. Every army, during times of war and peace, has its soldiers entertained. During the Vietnam war, for example, actors where flown to Asia, and during the Second World War...
WW2 German Service-Passport
Bucharest war time issued Dienstpass. The item here today is an attractive service passport, and what makes it extra special is the fact that it was NOT issued in Germany but at a diplomatic mission abroad....