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This rare late-war multi-page paper type Nazi Civilian Identity Document is **SOLD**

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Very few collectors of Nazi identity documents are even aware that a multi-page paper version of the Kennkarte was issued during the Third Reich.

An extremely high percentage (probably 99% or more) of the Kennkarte or Civilian Identity Document issued by the police in Nazi Germany were of the well-known tear-resistant, once folded, gray "leinen" type containing a front and back cover and two inside pages. That type of Kennkarte was replaced with a new multi-page version when supplies of it ran out in some police offices late in the war. Most police offices never exhausted their supply of the old style document before the end of the war, so they never issued even a single example of the multi-page Kennkarte.

This particular final version of the Nazi Kennkarte was issued by the police of Wuppertal, Germany on 26 March 1945 to Emma Hilgers (née Hoeft on 20 November 1908), less than three weeks before that industrial city in the Ruhr was liberated by American forces. The ID was valid until 26 March 1950 and there is little doubt Emma Hilgers continued to use this ID after the end of the war as she covered up the swastika on the front cover, as well as blacked out the swastikas on page 2 and 3 (not the large on on page 1).

This rare Nazi identity document is complete and in very good used condition, with its original ID photo. We have never seen one issued this close to the end of World War II!

The last style Kennkarten were printed at the Reichsdrückerei in Berlin and were very sophisticated identity documents. They were much more like a passport; printed with a multicolor alteration disclosing back-ground on pages 2 and 3, the center-spread. Page 1 was a facsimile of the printing on the front cover.