When a fake passport is a genuine fake passport...

[StefanM]

Old news of course but the recent thread, now closed, regarding the fake "Angel of Death" passport reminded me of this genuine fake passport created by the SOE for Hitler:

Special Operations Executive Records Release 8th Feb 2002

The Hitler Passport.

Document Reference: HS 8/1032
SOE’s forgery section produced fake documents to provide cover for operatives’ clandestine activities in occupied Europe and elsewhere around the world. The fake document section relied heavily on counterfeiters and forgers recently released from his Majesty’s Pleasure. This fake passport for Adolf Hitler shows what the forgery department could create and also something of their sense of humour. Note the red ‘J’ (used to indicate Jews on German passports) and the Government of Palestine stamp showing Hitler as an emigrant to Palestine. It also says his occupation is a ‘painter’ and his distinguishing features are his ‘little moustache’.

[StefanM]

Closed FIO