People didn't move freely across border pre WW1. In most places you actually needed internal passports and/or visible means of support, letters of recommendation, and so on to be allowed to leave in the first place, let alone be allowed to settle in a new region or nation.
Identity-papers of some kind was most definitely a "thing" back th…
People didn't move freely across border pre WW1. In most places you actually needed internal passports and/or visible means of support, letters of recommendation, and so on to be allowed to leave in the first place, let alone be allowed to settle in a new region or nation.
Identity-papers of some kind was most definitely a "thing" back then. Check up on Ellis Island procedures for europeans coming to the US - the vetting there would be called extreme today, and everyone who came there had been pre-vetted by the shipping company transporting them across the Atlantic.
People didn't move freely across border pre WW1. In most places you actually needed internal passports and/or visible means of support, letters of recommendation, and so on to be allowed to leave in the first place, let alone be allowed to settle in a new region or nation.
Identity-papers of some kind was most definitely a "thing" back then. Check up on Ellis Island procedures for europeans coming to the US - the vetting there would be called extreme today, and everyone who came there had been pre-vetted by the shipping company transporting them across the Atlantic.