On 09/01/2012 17:13, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 09.01.2012 17:52, schrieb Lüko Willms:
West Berliners could get an FRG passport without any trick. They were
issued by West Berlin authorities. This passport was acceptable in all
non-Eastern bloc countries.

I am quite sure that they could not get an FRG passport from the
Westberlin Senat. The occupation forces were very keen on keeping the
legal separation between Westberlin and the FRG. Even the postal stamps
of Westberlin were different.

The (german language) Wikipedia article on West-Berlin
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/West-Berlin#Besonderheiten
says on this issue:

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Die in West-Berlin ausgestellten Reisepässe dagegen glichen den in
Westdeutschland ausgestellten Pässen und waren mit „Bundesrepublik
Deutschland“ beschriftet. Sie wurden formal nicht von Berliner Behörden,
sondern von einer in Berlin ansässigen Außenstelle des
Bundesinnenministeriums ausgestellt.

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This confirms what I said above: The Westberlin Senate did not issue FRG
passports. WEstberlin citizens did get FRG passports for the Bonn
government, as also Polish citizens did get such passports.

As you might know, the FRG authorities issued FRG-passports for Polish
citizens. They introduced double citizenship in Poland, while refusing
double citizenship by all means for people actually living within the FRG.

There are more interesting remarks about other ID and travel documents
in this Wikipedia article.


Cheers,
L.W.


Under what circumstances would they have allowed Polish citizens to
obtain West German passports and when was that?