N06755 CIVIL IDENTIFICATION CARD. (Kennkarte)  

BACKGROUND: The "Kennkarte" was the basic identification card in use during the Third Reich era, first introduced in July of 1938. They were normally obtained through a police precinct and had the corresponding issuing office and official’s stamps to them. Every German citizen was issued one, and was expected to produce it when confronted by officials.  

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A light grey oilcloth, bi-fold, "Kennkarte" (Identity-card), whose closed cover measures 4 1/16" x 5 7/8". Its cover features a black, spread-winged eagle with a wreathed, mobile swastika in its talons, with "Deutsches Reich," in Gothic script, above it and "Kennkarte" beneath. The first interior page has eleven blocks to it which relate the bearer’s district, in this case "Berlin," her identity number and that it was valid until June of 1946, her name, birth date and place, occupation, unalterable and alterable identifying features, and "Bemerkungen" (Observations). To the facing page is a black and white photograph of the bearer, her right and left forefinger-prints, and official stamps and signatures, dated for June of 1941, from "Der Polizeipräident in Berlin." The swastikas to the ink stamps have been deliberately obscured. Curiously, rectangular cuts are to the base of this page, with those detached sections then re-affixed by cloth tape, visible to the back cover. The back cover also features ink stamps from the "Polizeirevier" (Police-district) in Berlin, dated for August of 1945, along with a partially decipherable, handwritten note which finishes with "Gültigkeit" (Validity). Aside from the aforementioned cut and tape repairs, the card is only lightly age and usage soiled.

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