123 - Luftwaffe document group, Wehrpass Sanitäts-Oberfeldwebel, driving licence, Hitler Youth ID card

Luftwaffe document group, Wehrpass Sanitäts-Oberfeldwebel, driving licence, Hitler Youth ID card Paper, card, linen, group of identity papers from the Second World War, relating to two different persons, 1) Luftwaffe Wehrpass (military service book) of a driver in the medical service with extensive entries, deployment against England 1940, Eastern campaign 1941 (Minsk, Smolensk) and deployment in the Italian theatre of operations 1943/44, promotions entered up to Sanitäts-Oberfeldwebel (medical staff sergeant) (1.3.45), together with the Wehrmacht driving licence (class 3) and a bilingual Allied identity card (S.E.P., Surrendered Enemy Personnel) from the period of captivity in Italy (Forli area), 2) Hitler Youth membership card with photograph of the holder in uniform and dues stamps for the years 1939 to 1942, good condition commensurate with age, the documents complete and clearly legible, partly with signs of use and stains. From the introduction of compulsory military service in 1935, the Wehrpass was issued at the conscription examination (Musterung) and served as proof of the holder's military service status; on joining the unit the soldier handed it in in exchange for the Soldbuch, the unit continued it with units, deployments, promotions and decorations and returned it to him on discharge. The term Surrendered Enemy Personnel (S.E.P.) was used above all by the British forces after the end of the war for German soldiers who had surrendered. The Hitler Youth, founded in 1926, became the state youth organisation after 1933; with the Law on the Hitler Youth of 1 December 1936 and the youth service obligation of 25 March 1939, membership became compulsory for young people, and the number of members rose to 8.7 million by 1939. Membership cards with photograph and dues stamps document membership year by year.