Nazi Passport of a Jew Named Schwarz

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“J” MARKED NAZI PASSPORT OF A JEW NAMED SCHWARZ

AN AUTHENTIC FIRST-STYLE NAZI PASSPORT OF A
JEWISH SALESMAN WHO FLED GERMANY IN 1938.
PART OF A LOT INCLUDING A NAZI DRIVING LICENSE
AND AN EARLIER GERMAN PASSPORT

During the Third Reich, most Jews and half-Jews in Germany were stripped of their principal civil rights as part of the ongoing effort of the German government to induce them to leave the country. As circumstances for Jews in Germany deteriorated in the late 1930s, many applied for a passport and gladly emigrated. Some struggled to remain in the country of their birth.

This lot consists of a Weimar German passport issued on 18 September 1931 in the name of Kurt Schwarz, a German born resident of Madrid, Spain who traveled widely as a salesman. The passport includes entries and non-postal stamps from Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Spain, and stamps from France and other countries. The spine of this passport has been mended.

The second passport, number 25R/602/36 is a 32 page first-style Nazi Reisepass or passport issued in Berlin on 23 March 1937 in the name of the same Kurt Schwarz, a salesman and resident of Berlin. According to information in this passport Kurt Schwarz was born on 26 January 1901. He was of heavy build, had a long face, brown eyes, black hair and no distinguishing marks.

In compliance with the new German law, Schwarz's passport was modified on 5 December 1938 by placing a large red dated capital J just to the left of the eagle on page 1. At the same time his name in the passport was changed from Kurt Lev Schwarz to Kurt Israel Lev Schwarz in compliance with the same law. It was valid for travel in and outside of Germany with the exception of travel to Spain or Austria.

This passport had a validity of just 365 days while normal German passports for aryans were valid for five years.

Schwarz got transit visas from the French and British consulates in Berlin to be used in connection with his intended departure for Brazil.

The Brazilian Consulate in Paris gave him visa 419 for Rio de Janeiro on 20 December 1938. Stamps in the passport prove that he landed at Rio de Janeiro on 3 February 1939.

In this grouping there is also a Nazi driving license (shown left) for automobiles issued in the name of Kurt L. Schwarz in Berlin on 22 July 1937, and a pigskin passport holder (top photo on the left side) embossed with a Weimar eagle and the word REISEPASS on the front cover. Inside is the name Kurt Schwarz.

This is an excellent grouping containing a very rare Third Reich German passport used by a Jew to flee Nazi Germany in 1938.

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