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The act provided for the establishment of a constantly-maintained national register of the civilian population of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man, and for the issuance of identity cards based on data held in the register, and required civilians to present their identity cards on demand to police officers and other authorised persons.
A United States Uniformed Services Privilege and Identification Card (also known as U.S. military ID, Geneva Conventions Identification Card, or less commonly abbreviated USPIC) is an identity document issued by the United States Department of Defense to identify a person as a member of the Armed Forces or a member's dependent, such as a child ...
These identification cards were issued to residents aged 15 and above between 1941 and 1943. However, due to resistance efforts, many Kennkarten were forged by the Polish resistance . In the first weeks of the German occupation of Poland , pre-war documents issued by the Second Polish Republic were used for identification.
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The current German ID card is an ID-1 plastic card (credit card size) with an embedded RFID chip. Biometric data, including fingerprints and a digital photograph, are stored on the chip. However, no central file of biometric data is created upon issuance. The card features multi-colour guillochés and appears green-brown from a distance.
V-mail letter written July 1943 V-mail envelope with V-mail symbol, March 1943. V-mail correspondence was on small letter sheets, 17.8 by 23.2 cm (7 by 9 + 1 ⁄ 8 in), that would go through mail censors before being photographed and transported as thumbnail-sized image in negative microfilm.
The first Ground Observer Corps was a World War II Civil Defense program of the United States Army Air Forces to protect United States territory against air attack. The 1.5 million civilian observers at 14,000 coastal observation posts performed naked eye and binocular searches to detect German or Japanese aircraft.
German Ordnungspolizei officers examining a man's papers in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1941 "Your papers, please" (or "Papers, please") is an expression or trope associated with police state functionaries demanding identification from citizens during random stops or at checkpoints. [1]