IDENTITY DOCUMENTS IN GERMANY 1944

"Your papers, please"Identity Documents were found everywhere in the German ReichThe original purpose of this official 1944 SHAEF book was to make Counter Intelligence Officers familiar with the different categories of identity and other documents carried by German citizens, alien labour and friendly aliens within the Third Reich.It gives a thorough look at the minutia of the bureaucratic administration of wartime Germany, and its fighting services, political and paramilitary organisations, civil services and civilian society, through the documents of a totalitarian state in which any activity which was not forbidden was compulsory.These historical documents are now extremely collectable. This original core reference gives reliable information to the purpose of issue, with actual-size colour illustrations of the artefact (both front, back and internal), along with a physical description and issuance regulations.Bans on Nazi symbolsThe use of the Nazi swastika is prohibited, and currently subject to legal restrictions in a number of countries. The result is that for the cover of this reference book we have used documents that do not display the swastika, or show it either incomplete or indistinctly. The internal pages of this book, however, are as originally published - complete and unedited.This book is reproduced exclusively for research and collection purposes, and is in no way advocating, nor promoting, Nazi ideology.…