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This lot consists of two identity documents issued to Mrs. Stefanie Jordan (née Hlavacek), a married woman born in Vienna on 27 December 1894 who had grey eyes and blond hair.

The grey leinen or oilcloth Deutsches Reich Kennkarte (German State Identity Document) was issued to Mrs. Jordan on 13 September 1943 by the Polizeipräsident in Wien (Vienna), the second largest city in the Großdeutsches Reich of Adolf Hitler. Her eagle and swastika emblazoned Nazi Kennkarte lists her job simply as Haushalt, meaning she worked as a housekeeper. It was valid until 13 September 1948 and is complete with the original ID photo, correctly overstamped in the upper right and lower left corner with the round eagle and swastika stamp of the Vienna police.

The second civilian ID in this document grouping is Stefanie Jordan’s Identitätsausweis. If you have seen the 1949 movie The Third Man, then you know all about these multi-lingual (German, English, French and Russian) postwar ID cards. Austria was divided into four Allied zones after World War II and like Berlin, the inner-city district of Vienna was administered by all four powers, the so-called "Inter-Allied Zone". 

This 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 inch ID number 2222/51 was issued on 27 August 1951 at the police station of Währing, in the fashionable 18th District of Vienna. This ID is in all likelihood the replacement for her original postwar Allied ID that would have been issued in 1945 or 1946, and surrendered when she obtained this one.

Stapled inside the front cover is a 2-1/8 x 2-5/8 inch ID photo of 57 year old Mrs. Jordan and it looks like an old photo was used.

The four pages inside the cardstock cover all have the same personal details describing Stefanie Jordan, but each page is printed in a different language, filled out by an official of that occupation power (Austria and USA, France and the Soviet Union) and stamped by that country’s official.

Shown left are the American and French pages, below the Russian one and the inside of the back cover.

Both identity documents are 100% original and in very nice used condition, exactly as shown.