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Fun in the Reich

By Bruce Kipp
Card issued to 20-year old mine-worker (Bergmann) Gebhard Lutz who lived in Hohenpeißenberg in the Schongau District (Kreis). He joined the NSKK on 1 May 1935, as a Mann (Private) and was later promoted to Sturmmann (Private First Class).
Photographs and Ephemera

National-Socialist Motor Corps Identification Card

By Bruce Kipp
After the rise of the Nazi power, the the Völkischer Beobachter became the Party’s official newspaper. Here, Adolf Hitler smiles as he reads the news in the Beobachter — his favorite newspaper.
Photographs and Ephemera

Völkischer Beobachter Beziehersbuch

By Bruce Kipp
This annual fishing license for a German citizen is printed on blue, medium card stock, measuring about 15cm x 10cm. The document has a postcard-style format. This particular license was issued on 15 November 1941 by the district administrative office to 42-year old Josef Hessler, a factory worker in the town of Berndorf in the district of Baden near Vienna (Kreis Baden bei Wien) in the Reich Province of Lower Danube (Reichsgau Niederdonau). There was a 3 Reichsmark fee for the license.
Photographs and Ephemera

Gone Fishing

By Bruce Kipp
Originally founded in 1919 as a voluntary organization of engineers, technicians, and skilled specialist, the Technical Emergency Service (TeNo) evolved under Nazi leadership into a paramilitary labor organization for disaster relief, civil defense, air raid rescue, and relief work.
Photographs and Ephemera

TeNo Service Card

By Bruce Kipp
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Photographs and Ephemera

WWII Third Reich District Spokesman’s ID card identifies a "card-carrying Nazi"

By Bruce Kipp
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Photographs and Ephemera

Militaria Spotlight: Third Reich Border Security cards

By Bruce Kipp
The obverse of the Ostbahn Personnenausweis identifies the holder, in this case, Henryk Wineiatz, a train conductor at the main train station in Kielce, a city in southeast Poland.
Photographs and Ephemera

German Eastern National Railway ID cards

By Bruce Kipp
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Photographs and Ephemera

German Youth ID Card

By Bruce Kipp
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Photographs and Ephemera

Papers Please

By Bruce Kipp
Crossing the inner German border remained possible throughout the Cold War. It was never entirely sealed, though there were severe restrictions on the movement of East German citizens. The post-war agreements on the governance of Berlin specified that the Western Allies were to have access to the city via defined air, road, rail and river links. This was mostly respected by the Soviets and East Germans, albeit with periodic interruptions and harassment of travellers. Even during the Berlin Blockade of 1948, supplies could be brought in by air – the famous Berlin Airlift – and Allied military convoys could pass through East Germany en route to Berlin. Photo taken ca. 1954 by Verne Kindschi.
Photographs and Ephemera

Cold War memories: Driving Ivan’s Autobahn

By Bruce Kipp

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