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Offered for sale on this USMBOOKS web page is a 100% original Third Reich Umsiedler-Ausweis number 1034952, issued to 14 year old Peter Terre in Wangerin (Pomerania, now Poland) on 15 January 1945. Peter Terre, was born on 20 October 1930 in Marienberg in the USSR, the son of a farmer. He was a slim unmarried, blond, 1.65 m tall with grey-blue eyes. His left index finger was mutilated.

This is a very rare Nazi ID document, a 1945 dated Deutsches Reich Umsiedler-Ausweis. Umsiedler-Ausweise were issued to Volksdeutsche or ethnic German immigrants or German nationals returning to Nazi Germany from Süd-Tirol, Bessarabien (in Rumania), the Baltic states, Croatia, the Soviet Union, Hungary and several other European states.

The background of the Adolf Hitler / Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler plan to repatriate and resettle as many ethnic Germans or Volksdeutschen as possible is quite interesting and well-explained in the 1941 book Heimkehrer (Returnee) by Polizei Hauptmann Hans Richter.

Hitler made Himmler (shown in the reference photo above) the Kommissar of the 'Office of Repatriation' and Himmler placed responsibility for the follow-through in the hands of his SS and Police. Establishing entry points for the Greater German Reich in Graz, Belgrade, Posen and Trecks by Przemysl, the Sicherheitsdienst der SS (SD or Security Service) vetted, processed, logged, identified and passed on each and every returnee so that only ethnic Germans were permitted to resettled in Germany. Once supplied with SD identification such as this Umsiedler-Ausweis, the Heimkehrer were examined by medical personnel, evaluated, provided with necessary food and clothing and assigned to temporary housing where they could reassemble their families.

The gray leinen or oilcloth ID measures 4-¼ x 5-¾ inches and has four panels. According to information in this very rare Nazi ID, he lived in Kolodischtschi, 15 kilometers east of Minsk, before his trek to Grossdeutschland. This was also the location of a large and infamous labor camp / prison camp for Czech, German and Austrian Jews called Maly Trostenets.

Terre's Umsiedler-Ausweis has the appropriate rubber stamp of the Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD of the Central Immigrant Office at Litzmannstadt on panel 3. On the back panel is a rubber stamp from the same Litzmannstadt Einwandererzentralstelle about compensation that he would receive, apparently after additional background facts had been checked.

This is a very rare Nazi document. It still has the original ID photo , correctly overstamped. This original historical Umsiedler-Ausweis is in very nice condition, except for the defaced swastika on the front cover.