Month: July 2019

Christian Friedrich Jürgen Ziebell – Mastermind of the Black Market Passport Business

Normally I can bang out these blog posts in about eight hours – about 6 hours of research and a couple of hours of writing and editing. In the case of Jürgen Ziebell, however, I have been sucked into an overwhelming web of information, most of it in German. It has taken me quite a

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Hans Blum – originator of the Berlin Black Market Passport Business

N.B. I normally try to include a fair few photographs in my blog posts to add visual interest. In this case, it didn’t seem entirely appropriate but I have included links to some images on other sites. Information from Josef Jakobs For an introduction to the Jewish emigration business, please read the blog here first.

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Josef Jakobs and the Characters involved in the Blackmarket Passport Business

N.B. 2019 08 26 – This blog is constantly being updated as I publish blog posts about the characters Introduction A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about Josef Jakobs and one of his associates (Egon Rammrath) and the black market passport “business” that they were involved with in Berlin from 1937-38.

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