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German WWII Feuerwehr-Ausweis (Fire Brigade Identity Document) - A green cloth-covered identity booklet titled ”Feuerwehr-Ausweis”, the cover bearing a stylized eagle and wreath fire-police emblem. The interior pages are issued to Josef Krudewig, born 13.4.1906, listing his civilian occupation as Schreiner (joiner/carpenter) and his residence at Lendersdorf, with membership number 231 in the Freiwillige Feuerwehr des Amtspolizeibezirks. The document includes a photograph of the holder, his signature, and an impressed stamp of the Freiwillige Feuerwehr, Kreis Dueren der Stadt Dueren, along with printed publication details from Feuerwehrverlag Heinrich Oberhoffer, Bernkastel-Kues. Such identity booklets were issued to members of local volunteer fire brigades, which during the Third Reich period were integrated into the broader civil protection and police apparatus, as reflected in the eagle insignia on the cover. During the Third Reich, volunteer fire brigades (Freiwillige Feuerwehr) were incorporated into the Feuerloeschpolizei (fire-fighting police) framework under Reich authority, placing local fire services under police and civil-defence administration rather than purely municipal control, hence the state eagle insignia on membership documents. These brigades carried out both routine fire-fighting duties and civil protection tasks, including responses to Allied bombing raids on German towns such as Dueren, which suffered severe destruction later in the war. This identity booklet documents an individual civilian tradesman's service within this locally organised but state-integrated fire protection system in the Dueren district of the Rhineland.