VERY RARE ORIGINAL THIRD REICH

"J" MARKED NAZI PASSPORT FOR A JEW

ISSUED TO A FEMALE JEW FROM BERLIN WHO MANAGED TO GET OUT OF GERMANY IN 1939!

This extremely interesting Nazi German passport was issued 19 July 1939 to Carola Sara Meyersohn (looks on the photo like Marlene Dietrich - see below left) in Berlin. Her passport contains visa entries from Chile, Italy and France. She emigrated to Chile via France in 1939.

The big letter "J" on the first page in the passport instantly identified the owner as a Jew (see photo below). Since 1938 the so called "Judenstempel" (Jew Stamp), a big red letter "J" was stamped into the passports of Jews by the Nazi German authorities. Besides that Nazi racial laws made it mandatory that every Jewish female had to take on the middle name Sara and every Jewish male the middle name Israel. Not every country allowed Jews to enter the country at that time and because of the "Judenstempel" a lot of Jews were probably rejected. They either had to find a different route out of Nazi Germany or remain under Nazi control and live under constant danger!