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EXTREMELY RARE NAZI IDENTITY DOCUMENT BOOK
SHAEF Nazi Documents Book
A VERY RARE
EXAMPLE OF THE
CONFIDENTIAL
ALLIED WAR-TIME
BOOK
“IDENTITY
DOCUMENTS
IN GERMANY”
NSDAP member ID
“IDENTITY DOCUMENTS IN GERMANY” is a huge 8-1/4 x 12-1/2 inch (about 1-1/2 inches thick!) 200+ page, very heavily illustrated hardcover book printed in many colors in August 1944 by the G2 (Counter Intelligence) Division of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) Evaluation & Dissemination Section.
Map of Großdeutschland
It was intended to be the primary guide for Army Intelligence officers in the matter of the Ausweise, Mitgliedskarten, Bescheinigungen, etc., (identity documents) then in use by the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler in Germany.

The book is extremely comprehensive. The sections include the Germany Army, Navy and Air Force, Paramilitary Organizations like the SS, SA, NSFK, NSKK, HJ, etc., Party Organizations of the NSDAP, the Merchant Navy, civilians and even foreigners in Germany.
Gestapo and Nazi Police Material
Virtually every document is shown in color at actual size (many on fold-out pages because of their size) and explained at length in English. Some of the very seldom seen documents shown in this book are the Ausweis for the Geheime Feldpolizei, Kriegsberichter, Couriers, Military Leave Passes of all sorts, train tickets, and even the oval metal identity disk or badge of the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei).
NSKK document
In some cases Allied Intelligence Officers producing this book deleted names and/or numbers from the documents they copied so that the Germans would not know how the Allies obtained the samples.

At the back of the book is an excellent glossary of abbreviations used in German Third Reich identity documents and an index to the documents in the book. The binding of the book is of the “shoestring” type so that obsolete pages could be removed and replaced with updated ones.
SS Soldbuch
Organisation Todt Dienstbuch
A few collectors are aware of the existence of this book (many advanced collectors DO NOT know of it) but almost no one has actually see or held a genuine example of it. It is that rare. This one is from the archive of Ray & Josephine Cowdery, authors of the full-color Third Reich identity document guidebook, “Papers Please!” .

This extremely rare example of the CONFIDENTIAL Allied book “IDENTITY DOCUMENTS IN GERMANY” is in very good condition. Where would you find another one?
Kriegsberichter
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