Set of German WWII-era Personal Documents and ID Cards
A varied set of German identification and membership documents dating from the 1930s-1940s period, including a Luftfahrtlehrgaenge (aviation training) record card, an Invalidenversicherung insurance quittance card, a Dienstausweis identity booklet with an attached photograph of a young man, a personal identification card with an attached photograph of a young woman named Trebert Irene, a Reichsluftschutzbund (air raid protection league) membership card numbered 125239, and a Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (voluntary labour service) pamphlet bearing the organization's emblem. Additional items include an Arbeitspass (workbook) with entries for employment history, a Personal Ausweis booklet, a Lohnsteuerkarte wage tax card, a further insurance-related form, and a small card bearing affixed tax/insurance stamps. Various stamps, handwritten entries, and official seals appear throughout the set, reflecting the bureaucratic paperwork required of German civilians during this era.
Such documentation formed part of the extensive civil administration of the period, with separate cards and booklets required for employment, insurance, air-raid defense membership, and general identification purposes.
These documents illustrate the dense bureaucratic infrastructure governing everyday life for German civilians under the Third Reich. The Reichsluftschutzbund, founded in 1933, organised civilian air-raid defence training and equipment, becoming compulsory in practice for much of the population as Allied bombing intensified. The Arbeitspass and Lohnsteuerkarte reflect the regime's tight regulation of labour and taxation, tools also used to enforce compulsory work assignments, while the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst pamphlet relates to the labour service scheme that preceded the compulsory Reichsarbeitsdienst, intended to instil discipline and ideological conformity in young workers. Collectively, such papers document the routine civil identity and insurance record-keeping through which the state monitored and mobilised its population during the 1930s and war years.
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A varied set of German identification and membership documents dating from the 1930s-1940s period, including a Luftfahrtlehrgaenge (aviation training) record card, an Invalidenversicherung insurance quittance card, a Dienstausweis identity booklet with an attached photograph of a young man, a personal identification card with an attached photograph of a young woman named Trebert Irene, a Reichsluftschutzbund (air raid protection league) membership card numbered 125239, and a Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (voluntary labour service) pamphlet bearing the organization's emblem. Additional items include an Arbeitspass (workbook) with entries for employment history, a Personal Ausweis booklet, a Lohnsteuerkarte wage tax card, a further insurance-related form, and a small card bearing affixed tax/insurance stamps. Various stamps, handwritten entries, and official seals appear throughout the set, reflecting the bureaucratic paperwork required of German civilians during this era.
Such documentation formed part of the extensive civil administration of the period, with separate cards and booklets required for employment, insurance, air-raid defense membership, and general identification purposes.
These documents illustrate the dense bureaucratic infrastructure governing everyday life for German civilians under the Third Reich. The Reichsluftschutzbund, founded in 1933, organised civilian air-raid defence training and equipment, becoming compulsory in practice for much of the population as Allied bombing intensified. The Arbeitspass and Lohnsteuerkarte reflect the regime's tight regulation of labour and taxation, tools also used to enforce compulsory work assignments, while the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst pamphlet relates to the labour service scheme that preceded the compulsory Reichsarbeitsdienst, intended to instil discipline and ideological conformity in young workers. Collectively, such papers document the routine civil identity and insurance record-keeping through which the state monitored and mobilised its population during the 1930s and war years.
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