I don’t know if I can ask this here, but can anyone tell me what kind of document is this one?

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1. If somebody couldn’t tell their nationality or didn’t have any documents that prove their nationality, you’d get this just so that you have something to identify yourself with.

2. It’s a temporary travel/identification document for foreigners. The word “Pass” is usually passport – this document specifies that the holder is not a German national.
   It states identifying details such as body type, facial shape, eye color and hair color, as well as his job.

3. It is a “provisional passport for a foreign person” (in this case, the person was Italian)

4. It’s a passport for foreigners. Some people can get one without being citizens – like stateless ones or others that are allowed to live in the country without being citizens of that country. In your case it’s a passport for an Italian radio engineer.

5. It’s a passport for foreigners. It states that he doesn’t have German citizenship and that he works as a radio mechanic.

6. “Preliminary Non-Citizen Passport”

   “The owner of this passport does not have German (Reich) citizenship.”

   Along with some basic stats and physical description of your great-grandfather.

   Not sure what the purpose was, my guess would be that you needed it to identify yourself when you were living and working in WWII Germany as a foreigner, like your great-grandfather as a radio mechanic.

7. The new american passports. Issued by ICE.