• 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: This is crazy cool, this 1936 booklet says'Deutscher Radfahrer-Verband' (German Cyclists' Association). I've never seen anything like this, not even the stamps off the book.]

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    [Below: Stamps close-up.]

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    [Below: This is an Austrian I.D. card from 1936, 'Erkennungskarte' (Identification card).]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: These are neat, this is a 'Reichskolonialbund' (Reichs Colonial League), an organization dealing with the lost colonies of Imperial Germany, stripped away after WWI. Unlike the other colonial powers, Germany was the only one that didn't use violence to obtain them, they actually purchased them.]

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    [Below: Inside. This has three layers of stamps, as seen below.]

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    [Below: First layer of stamps peeled back.]

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    [Below: Second layer of stamps peeled back.]

    [Below: This is interesting, it was issued in March 1937 in Leipzig, it says 'Wandergewerbeschein
    gültig, vorbehaltlich der Entrichtung der Landessteuern, für das ganze Reichsgebiet'

    (Traveling trade license
    valid, subject to payment of state taxes, for the entire Reich). Reverse/front.]

    [Below: Page 2-3. At one point this had a photograph, but unfortunately it is long gone.]

    [Below: Page 4-5.]

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    [Below: This is an NSDAP/DAF booklet. It says:

    'Gau Oberdonau
    Abtl. für Berufserziehung und Betriebsführung
    Teilnehmerkarte.'

    (Upper Danube District
    Department of Vocational Training and Business Management
    Participant Card)
    Reverse/front.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Inside. Interesting DAF tax stamps, much rarer than the commonly seen ones.]

    [Below: Close-up. 'Kursus Gebühr' (Course fee).]

    [Below: A seldomly seen booklet, this says:

    'Beitragskarte
    des
    Reichsbundes der Deutschen Beamten'

    (Contribution card
    of the
    Reich Association of German Civil Servants)

    Reverse/front.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Inside.]

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    [Below: This is a Hitler Youth event pass/indentification from 1937-38.]

    [Below: Event stamp, it says: 'Künstlerdank Veranst.=R. der HJ' (Artists' Thank You Event = R. of the Hitler Youth).]

    [Below: Reverse.]

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    [Below: This is an RLB (Reichsluftschutzbund, Reich Air Protection League) membership card from April 1936.]

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    [Below: Reverse - membership stamps.]

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    [Below: Perforated membership stamp wedged behind others.]

    [Below: This says: 'Bahnen der Hansestadt Köln - Wochenkarte' (Köln's Trams Weekly Ticket).]

    [Below: Neat, this actually has a photo I.D., at the top this says: 'Wochenkarten sind nur in der Gekennzeichneten Woche gültig' (Weekly tickets are only valid in the marked week).]

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    [Below: This is from the 'Deutsche Turnerschaft' (German Gymnastics Association), 1933-34. The German Turnfest (German Gymnastics Festival) of 1933 took place in Stuttgart, from July 21-31. The patron of this event was President Paul von Hindenburg. The festival attracted 600,000 people!]

    [Below: Inside.]

    [Below: Another card from the 'Deutsche Turnerschaft' (German Gymnastics Association), from 1936.]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: The Turnverein was another gymnastics club, 1935-1937.]

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    [Below: Membership card from the 'Berliner Schlittschuh-Club Tennis-Abteilung' (Berlin Ice Skating Club - Tennis Department). Wait, tennis department? Of ice skating?]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: Membership card from the 'Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten' (Reich Association of German Civil Servants), 1936.]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: Wow, this is neat to see, it is an employee badge of I.G. Farben Industries, the maker of Zyklon B. It has a very thick lamination. Note how the buttons have a winged creature and a globe and if you look behind the one on the right you can see the Bayer logo. It was issued on December 5, 1940 and was good until December 31, 1947. It says:

    'Auf die besonderen Dienstvorschriften für Unternehmer und deren Gefolgschaften wird hingewiesen. Der Ausweis bleibt Werkseigentum.'

    (Attention is drawn to the special service regulations for employers and their employees. The ID card remains the property of the company.)]

    [Below: Reverse, Elisabeth Boes, The Zyklon Maiden of Death.]

    [Below: This says:

    'Mahr. schles
    Sudeten
    Gebirgs-Verein'

    Which stands for:

    'Mährisch-Schlesischer
    Sudeten-Gebirgs-Verein'

    This translates to English as 'The Moravian-Silesian Sudeten Mountains Assocation'. This group was founded in 1881 to bring tourism to the Jeseníky Mountains, which has 1,242 miles (2,000 km) of hiking trails. This book is from 1914.]

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