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Third Reich Germany. Resettler Identity Document of a Citizen from Georgental (Ukraine, USSR), 1944
The Deutsches Reich Umsiedler-Ausweis (German Reich Resettler Identity Card) was an identification document issued by the authorities of the Third Reich to ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) who were relocated or resettled under the demographic and territorial policies implemented during the Second World War.
This example bears the inscription “nur für das Altreich gültig” (“valid only within the Old Reich”) on the cover, referring to Germany’s borders prior to 1938, before the Anschluss and the incorporation of the Sudeten territories.
The identity card belonged to a resident of Georgental, the historical name of a German settlement now known as Sekretarivka in Odesa Oblast, then part of the Soviet Union. The document contains the holder’s personal details and photograph.
It is signed and stamped in 1944 by the Einwandererzentralstelle, an organization established in 1939 under SS authority. The EWZ was responsible for registering, classifying, and administering ethnic Germans resettled within the Reich. It operated under the supervision of the **Sicherheitspolizei und SD and worked closely with agencies responsible for the regime’s resettlement and Germanization policies.
Original German Second World War document.
