• Here we'll place all manner of identity booklets, membership cards, papers, etcetera, both civilian and military. We'll scan any pages with writing or stamps and any unique pages within the books. Basically we'll scan any and all pages except duplicate pages of designs we've already scanned.

    [Below: An uncommon item (with tax stamps), you would think there would be many of these around, but there is not. It says:

    'Angestellten Versicherung'.

    (Employee Insurance).

    This is from 1941. Click to see within.]

    [Below: An example of the tax stamps within.]

    [Below: Here is another employee insurance card, but from 1943.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Inside. The tan-colored bottom half is a paper pasted in the book.]

    [Below: Paper lifted up.]

    [Below: And another employee insurance card, but from 1939.]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: This is a blank Red Cross identification card made of oilskin. It says:

    'Wehrmacht des Deutschen Reiches - Truppenteil -
    Personalausweis -
    [...]
    wird ausschließlich im Sanitätsdienst -
    Er ist berechtigt, das Genfer Abzeichen (gestempelte weiße
    Armbinde mit rotem Kreuz) zu tragen und steht unter dem Schutz
    der Artikle 9, 12, und 13 des Genfer Abkommens vom
    27.7.1929.'    .

    (Wehrmacht of the German Reich - Troop Unit
    - Identity Card -
    [...]
    is carried out exclusively in the medical service -
    He is entitled to wear the Geneva Badge (stamped white
    armband with a red cross) and is protected by
    Articles 9, 12, and 13 of the Geneva Convention of
    July 27, 1929).]

    [Below: The reverse is blank.]

    [Below: This is a sports card. It says:

    'Reichsberufswettkampf 1939 Ortswettkampf'.

    (Reich Vocational Competition 1939 Local competition)]

    [Below: This is an Allied occupation card from 1948. It says:

    ' Beschäftigungs-Nachweis für Arbeitneher'.

    (Proof of employment for employees).

    Click to see inside.]

    [Below: This is a 'Kennkarte' (Identity Card) from 1944. Click to see more.]

    [Below: This is a 1946 'Kennkarte' (Identity Card) from the Allied occupation of Germany. You'll note that it is in the three languages of the occupiers: English, French and Russian. I love the part where it says 'law for liberation from Nazism and Militarism', coming from Britain, who waged war on practically the whole world over its history, and the USA, who still continues to murder people all over the globe, usually civilians. And then there is Soviet Russia... I won't even get into that. Click to see more.]

    [Below: Now that is a MUSTACHE!!!]

    [Below: This is another 1946 'Kennkarte' (Identity Card) from the Allied occupation of Germany. Like the one above, it is in the three languages of the occupiers: English, French and Russian. I won't even get into that. Click to see more.]

    [Below: Wow, another massive mustache! This guy could be the father of the guy above!]

    [Below: This is a rare, unusually large work permit (in German and Cyrillic) for a Ukrainian girl named Frasina Palamtschuk. She was born on January 16, 1925 (she was 17 at the time) in Sabariwka (Zabarivka), a village in Ukraine. At the top it says: 'The owner is only authorized to leave the accomodation for the purpose of performing work.' In the center it says 'Work card for workers from Old Soviet Russia'.]

    [Below: Close-up of Frasina Palamtschuk.]

    [Below: Reverse of work permit. A paper has been glued over another entry. You can see some sort of odd-looking grey stamps, unfortunately it is impossible to look under the paper without tearing it, but whatever stamps these are I have never seen their like before. Anyway, here is more information, including that she worked for a wholesaler named 'Peter Gelhard & Sohn', in the town of Ransbach, in the region of Westerwald, Germany. The card was issued on November 25, 1943.]

    [Below: This is pretty neat, I've never seen one of these before. It's from 1938 and is an NSDAP health pass. In the USA (and probably elsewhere) the word 'Gesundheit' is said after someone sneezes. Strange how it stuck, probably from early days. Anyway, this says:

    'Gesundheitspaß
    des Hauptamtes für Volksgesundheit der NSDAP
    Der Inhaber hat den Paß Stets bei sich zu führen.
    Im Krankheitssalle dem Arzt vorlegen!'

    (Health Passport
    of the Main Office for Public Health of the NSDAP
    The holder must carry the pass with them at all times.
    Present it to the doctor in the hospital!).]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: What a handsome lad. This says: 'Berufsschulen der Stadt Essen' (Vocational schools in the city of Essen).]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Reverse. The bottom says:

    'This card is a document. Forgery and misuse will be punishedm and will result in the loss of the card. Entries or changes may only be made by the class teacher. The loss of the card must be reported to the school administration. The card is not valid during school holidays.']

    [Below: 'Kennkarte' just means I.D. card. This looks odd...]

    [Below: This is strange that it is orange color and has no picture or issue date, or even an eagle and swastika, not to mention it uses a stamp I've never seen used for an identification book. This was good until 1950.]

    [Below: Close-up. If this is postwar then they used a Third Reich stamp without the usual blotting it out, but this is sometimes seen, so there is no way to tell.]

    [Below: Another Kennkarte, this time from the Allied occupation. This is made of thin paper. What is that design in the middle?]

    [Below: Here we see this was issued on July 17, 1945 in Oldenburg. It has a strange-looking tax stamp, I think this is a Third Reich issue that they were able to keep after the occupation because it didn't have swastikas on it.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: This card says< 'German Civil Servants' Health Insurance Company'.

    In the middle it says 'Contribution Receipt List for' and on the left it also says 'Contribution'.]

    [Below: Inside. This shows the book was active between January 4, 1943 until May 15, 1944.]

    [Below: Now here is a mystery... I got this in a stack of various WWII military papers and identification cards. But what is it? Most of it is written in Sütterlin Script 'absendestelle' means something like 'sending place' and it also has places for dates and times. On the bottom it says 'Druck: Wehrkreisdruckerei XX, Danzig' (Print: Military District Printing House 20, Danzig). On the back is a hand-drawn map.]

    [Below: Reverse. Map. I don't think we'll ever know what it is, unfortunately.]