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This Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK or German Red Cross) Personal-Ausweis or Personal Identity Document was issued to pretty Fride Deutschmann, born 28 October 1911 in Stolberg, a small town just east of the city of Aachen, near the far western border of Germany with the Netherlands. When it was issued on 19 March 1939 in Aachen, 27 year old Deutschmann was a DRK Helferin or nurse's aid residing in Aachen.

This 81 year old 3-¼ x 4-¾ inch Nazi Red Cross identity document still has its original ID photo showing Deutschmann in her uniform and wearing a DRK brooch. It is correctly overstamped with the blue and red DRK Kreisstelle Aachen-Stadt rubber stamp. There are two DRK dues stamps showing below the ID photo.

The back panel has two interesting immediate postwar rubber stamps which indicate DRK nurse Fride Deutschmann was working further east in Nazi Germany when the war ended. There is a stamp dated 14 November 1945 from the Übergangspunkt Heiligenstadt, the Russian Occupation Zone border crossing at the city of Heiligenstadt which had eight German military hospitals in 1945. The city was liberated by US forces in April 1945, but was handed over to the Russians on 1-2 July 1945, a decision made at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.

The second rubber stamp shows Fride Deutschmann registered at the transit camp at Eisenach on 28 March 1946, coming from the Russian Zone. This was a camp set-up to process POWs, forced laborers and displaced people. We suspect that around the same time the red stamp on the front panel of this DRK Personal-Ausweis was added. It states that Fride Deutschmann was in the American Zone and that travel back into the Russian Zone was forbidden!

When we purchased this Nazi Red Cross identity document, it came with four original Third Reich photos.

One is a 60 x 84 mm ID photo of Fride Deutschmann in her DRK nurse uniform. Another 3-½ x 5-¼ inch deckle edge photo shows her standing on the right side of a Wehrmacht soldier with an Iron Cross ribbon, Wound Badge in Silver, and an Infantry Assault Badge on his tunic. Both the DRK nurses are wearing sturdy boots under their uniforms! The group photo has the names of some of the nurses written in pencil on the back.

This lot of DRK items is in very nice used condition, exactly as shown, and 100% original to Fride Deutschmann and the Third Reich period in Germany.