Nazi Gestapo Issued Identity Documents

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NAZI GESTAPO ISSUED PASS

A VERY
RARE NAZI
BORDER PASS
ISSUED BY
THE GESTAPO

This rare grouping consists of a rather typical Deutsches Reich Kennkarte (German State Identity Document) bearing a printing date of 10.38 issued by the Police Office in Favoriten on 3 July 1941 to pretty 22 year old Nazi Police employee Elisabeth Glier of Wien (Vienna), the second largest city in the Großdeutsches Reich of Adolf Hitler.

Issued by her employer, the Polizeipräsident in Wien, her eagle and swastika emblazoned Kennkarte lists her job simply as Angestellte or “employee” but does not get more specific.

By itself, this sort of ordinary Kennkarte would attract almost no attention. It is the other two pieces of the Glier grouping that make it very special.

The earliest of the other two pieces is a Durchlaßschein or Pass issued, stamped and signed on 9 September 1941 for Ms. Glier by the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei or Secret State Police) in Olmütz (now Olomouc in the Czech Republic).

The red inscription at the top says the pass was good throughout the entire Reich when accompanied only by a Elisabeth Glier’s Kennkarte. Normally, such wide ranging travel authority would have required substantially more documentation in Third Reich Germany in 1941.

The third piece in the Glier grouping is the 27 January 1943 update of her Gestapo Durchlaßschein issued by the police in the city of Meidling.

It is not likely we will ever know if the pretty young woman from Vienna was a Gestapo spy / operative or not. One thing is for certain, no one in Nazi Germany would have questioned her right to travel where ever she wanted with her Gestapo Durchlaßschein!

The rivet that holds the photo in place on the Glier’s Kennkarte is rusty, but the lot is in excellent condition, absolutely proper and irreplaceable. From the collection of Ray & Josephine Cowdery, authors of the full-color Third Reich identity document guidebook, “Papers Please!”

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