RARE LAST-TYPE THIRD REICH KENNKARTE |
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| Very few collectors of Nazi identity documents are even aware that an eight-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 8-page version when supplies of it ran out in some police offices in late 1944. 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 8-page Kennkarte. |
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| The last style 8-page 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 4 and 5, the center-spread. Pages 2, 6 and 7 were blank (to provide room for additional entries) and page 3 was a facsimile of the printing on the front cover. |
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| This particular final version of the Nazi Kennkarte is number 3614 (1.758593*) issued by the Polizeipräsident at Düsseldorf, Germany on 30 September 1944 to 36 year old Elisabeth Fetten. This rare document is complete and in good+ condition.
Contained in it is a rare Military Government of Germany Exemption number 326 dated 3 August 1945 that allowed Fetten to travel from Oberkassel to Sieglos near Hersfeld. THE INTERESTING PART OF THIS POST-WAR DOCUMENT IS that the Exemption in it was valid ONLY “when used in conjunction with” Fetten’s Nazi Kennkarte! |
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| Nice original condition. This rare document is from the collection of Josephine & Ray Cowdery, authors of the full-color Third Reich identity document guidebook, “Papers Please!” | |
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