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    Help with translating to Wehrpass


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    Hello,

    I know that I am not a very active poster on this forum but I do enjoy reading all the various topics/fields.

    As such I was wondering if the Forum would mind in assisting me with translating two Wherpass that I have had for years but sadly not researched until now. I will post several photos of each in this matter

    Kind Regards

    Mark

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    The Wehrpass is made out to:

    Hans Karl Heinrich Josef Lingens

    born: September 26, 1904 in Aachen

    He is catholic and a lawyer by profession.

    Can you post better (straight on) pictures of pages 22 and 23

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    The Wehrpass is made out to:

    Hans Karl Heinrich Josef Lingens

    born: September 26, 1904 in Aachen

    He is catholic and a lawyer by profession.

    Can you post better (straight on) pictures of pages 22 and 23

    Thanks for the reply and I will work to get those scanned.

    Mark

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    Hucks

    Yes he did but there seem to be a question as to the validity of both due to the use of an Americanized month and the mention of espionage on the others. So I was trying to gain more information. Sorry, I should have notated that

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    The espionage thing is quite a common thing to see in Wehrpasse as it just means that the person has had a briefing on, basically. security measures. Here is such an entry in a WP from my collection to someone badly wounded at El-Alamein and discharged from the Wehrmacht.

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    As hucks216 wrote, it is a normal instruction about secrecy, espionage etc.

    This brings back memories..... I remember one of my first books.... I was really excited to find a similar stamp... then found out it simply meant that he had been informed about spies and data protection...

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    This brings back memories..... I remember one of my first books.... I was really excited to find a similar stamp... then found out it simply meant that he had been informed about spies and data protection...

    I guess most document collectors went through that when first encountering these entries !

    Its amazing the number of times books with these entries have been offered by dealers claiming it means that the guy in the book had been trained as a Spy ! :-)

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