Nazi era German Passports or Reisepass

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A SELECTION OF THIRD REICH ERA GERMAN PASSPORTS

NAZI ERA
PASSPORTS FOR
CIVILIAN TRAVEL
ABROAD

There are four versions of standard Reisepässe or passports dating back to the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. The earliest type (Type 1) had a Weimar eagle on the front cover but Nazi eagle and swastika stamps on the inside. By May of 1936, the standard Reisepass (Type 2) had the Weimar eagle replaced with a Hoheitszeichen (eagle and swastika) between the words Deutsches Reich and Reisepass.

Later, (Type 3) the Hoheitszeichen had been moved to the top of the front cover and there was a passport serial number stamped all the way through the front and back covers and the internal 32 pages. Type 4 (not shown above) did away with the perforated numbers and had the passport number printed at the bottom of the front cover and on each subsequent page making it much more difficult to counterfeit. They were all identical in that each page had a alteration disclosing background, they all contained the same data, and all were issued by the Polizeipräsident or Head of the Police.

DEUTSCHES REICH REISEPASS
- TYPE 2

These Type 2 Nazi passports were issued to Johann Plachowa and his wife Franziska Plachowa on the same day, 26 July 1939. Their passport numbers are consecutive, something that is very rare. The Plachowas were both born in Wien (Vienna, the second largest city of Grossdeutschland) and resided in Wien as well.

It is highly unusual for a married couple to have two passports. Usually a wife was part of the husband's passport, and such passports would have a picture of each person. According to stamps in his passport, Johann Plachowa traveled in July and August of 1939, but Franziska Plachowa never left Greater Germany. There are no entries in her passport.

These rare consecutive numbered Nazi passports are **SOLD**

DEUTSCHES REICH REISEPASS - TYPE 4

This Type 4 Nazi passport number 56252 k/40 was issued by the Head of Police in Wien (Vienna) on 21 October 1943 to Stefan Juckl.

Juckl was born on 26 May 1902 in Wien, was a clerk with grey eyes and dark blond hair.

The original ID photo is in the passport, still attached with the original rivet. Juckl signed the Reisepass which was valid for travel "Inside Germany and Abroad" until 21 October 1944. Stamps show he traveled to Slovakia in December 1943, February and May 1944. Each time he traveled he exchanged 25 Reichsmarks.

This original Third Style Nazi passport is **SOLD**

DEUTSCHES REICH REISEPASS - TYPE 1

This Type 1 Nazi passport number 121R/460/36 was issued by the Head of Police in Berlin on 3 August 1936 to 25 year old Theresia Vespermann, a resident of Berlin-Charlottenburg. Vespermann was born on 14 July 1911 in Greifswald (near Peenemünde), was a technical illustrator with blond hair and blue eyes. This Reisepass was valid for travel "Inside Germany and Abroad" until 3 August 1941.

While the original ID photo is no longer attached to this passport, it contains many excellent visas and border crossing stamps for Austria, Yugoslavia and Poland dated 1936 and 1938.

This original First Style Nazi passport is **SOLD**.

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