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In case anyone else ever has this sort of problem, here's what happened: The National Passport Center in Portsmouth managed to produce a passport for my kid in less than 24 hours, I could pick it up the next day. They were also the friendliest government bureaucracy people I have ever dealt with anywhere. I asked them if they would have sent it to the consulate in Frankfurt if it wouldn't have been fast enough, but they said they don't do that.