Papers Please!

[Mike H]

I need a book on Soldbuchs, Wehrpasses, various Ausweis ...

Can you all recommend anything? I know that Emilie Caldwell Stuart (sp?) published something some years ago but I haven't seen one in ages.

Also, thre is Ray Cowdery's book, "Papers Please!"

What do you recommend?

Mike

[Ian Jewison]

There are quite a few knocking around but most are out of print....

There are a couple that I neglected buying for years but when I did get them I was pleasantly surprised....

German Third Reich Era Documents, Volume 1 & 2
http://www.jungco.homestead.com/

Jeff is online here somewhere....

/Ian

[TerryG]

I am not a document collector but I bought Papers Please and I enjoy refering to it now and again. All colour photos of the various documents with some basic info behind there existence and what can be found on what pages,etc...The table of contents is in German and in "American"(!?), a few pages cover abreviations used (like NSKOV, KVK, etc..), a Sutterlin alphabet and runic alphabet......a good reference book for me.

[Don Scowen]

I am not a document collector but I bought Papers Please and I enjoy refering to it now and again. All colour photos of the various documents with some basic info behind there existence and what can be found on what pages,etc...The table of contents is in German and in "American"(!?), a few pages cover abreviations used (like NSKOV, KVK, etc..), a Sutterlin alphabet and runic alphabet......a good reference book for me.

Same here. I've kept away from docs as I know very little about them. This book is a great introduction to the various passes etc.

Cheers
Don

[Ronnie R]

I agree, i'm not really a document collector, picking up the odd one here and there, but i found "Papers Please" a great help explainig the basic membership books, passes etc, and from memory it was quite reasonably priced.
Ronnie

Same here. I've kept away from docs as I know very little about them. This book is a great introduction to the various passes etc.

Cheers
Don

[Ian Jewison]

If you don't know anything about paperwork then Papers Please probably isn't a bad choice...personally I didn't find it helpful but I have been collecting documents and studying them for years.

It is however a well presented book with a few mistakes!

Emilie's are useful if you can get a hold of them!!! Her first three are long out of print but they do crop up occassionaly on ebay....the Wehrpaß I believe is still obtainable.

Peter Thompson from Australia wrote some books similar in format to Emilie's which are also quite useful, however I have lost contact with Peter and not seen or heard from him for a good few years.....his books also used to be on ebay.

Thats all I can think of at the moment.....I don't have the time to write one myself at the moment

/Ian

[David C]

German Third Reich Era Documents, Volume 1 & 2
http://www.jungco.homestead.com/
/Ian

I have these and find them useful.

Only let down by the, somewhat perplexing, omission of an index


Cheers,
David.

[Ian Jewison]

I have these and find them useful.

Only let down by the, somewhat perplexing, omission of an index


Cheers,
David.

Actually Jeff did mention that he thought it could have done with one!

/Ian

[Si1964]

As per Ian's comments.....

Emillies books are quite a usefull guide but at time are quite expensive, via Barnes and Noble there are two copies at $100 and $106 , but you can always try ebay as they turn up there from time to time.

Papers Please is Ok and again can be obtained via ebay

[Don Scowen]

As per Ian's comments.....

Emillies books are quite a usefull guide but at time are quite expensive, via Barnes and Noble there are two copies at $100 and $106 , but you can always try ebay as they turn up there from time to time.

Papers Please is Ok and again can be obtained via ebay

I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with these "Emillies" books. Can someone please post the full titles & IBSN numbers of them so that I may look for them?

Cheers
Don

[Si1964]

Hey Don

The author is Emilie caldwell Stewart

Wehrpassess & Soldbuch private print of 1000 copies {can't find any ISBN No} is sold out and harder to find

Military Identity Documents if the 3rd Reich out of print

Wehrpass is I think still available via Emilie {I need to locate her website} the price if she has any copies is about $28 inc shipping with the US.

[Ian Jewison]

This is Emilie's site http://members.aol.com/KZFAN/KZWeb.html but only mention that her olderer books are out of print....if I remember correctly they were privately publised and do not have ISBN numbers!!

I will have a look at mine....

[Don Scowen]

Thank you Simon & Ian, now I know what I am looking for .

Cheers
Don

[Ian Jewison]

I've just had a look on the net for her OOP books, even some specialist OOP book stores but unfortunately with no luck!!!

They do crop up from time to time..........