Original Award document of Stabsgefreiter Möser, who served with the Stab II./ Grenadier-Regiment 352 of the 246. Volksgrenadier-Division for the Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber (Infantry Assault Badge in Silver) on February 10, 1945 for 3 separate infantry assault days during his service! The 246. Volksgrenadier-Division saw action in Aachen, Ardennes etc.! Document was signed by an unknown officer. Has been folded in the past. Condition as seen.
Original set of 2x award documents of Obergefreiter Peschel who served with the Pionier-Bataillon 330 and Pionier-Bataillon 342.
Award document for the Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen (General Assault Badge), while serving with the 3. Kompanie/ Pionier-Bataillon 342 of the 342. Infanterie-Division. Signed by the Kommandeur.
Award document for the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class), while serving with 2. Kompanie/ Pionier-Bataillon 330 of the 330. Infanterie-Division. Signed by Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach.
Original Award document of Obergrenadier Katzinski, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his wound sustained on December 20, 1944 (typo made here) during the Battle of Bulge - Ardennes Offensive, while serving with the 10. Kompanie/ Grenadier-Regiment 8 of the 3. Panzergrenadier-Division. Comes with his DRK-Personalausweis for Krankenträger. Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original award document group of Obergefreiter Straka who served with the Panzerjäger-Abteilung 262 and Korps-Abteilung D.
Allgemeines-Sturmabzeichen (General Assault Badge) on February 8, 1942, for 3 separate assault days during his service. Signed by GeneralleutnantEdgar Theissen (DKIG).
Beautiful award doc of the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his wound sustained on August 5, 1941.
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class) for his courageous service on December 24, 1941. Signed by GeneralleutnantEdgar Theissen (DKIG).
Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 (Winter War Medal)for his service during the harsh winter of 1942/42 on August 25, 1942
3x Anerkennung (recognition, appreciation) set for Gefreiter of the Landesschützen-Bataillon 822 of the 539. Division. Signed by Generalleutnant Richard Speich (DKiS). Beautiful A4 documents! Good condition.
Original award document of Oberleutnant Seering for the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class), awarded for courageous service during the Invasion of Poland on October 4, 1939, while serving with the Infanterie-Regiment 188 of the 68. Infanterie-Division. Document was signed by Georg Braun(KIA 1941). Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original award document of Obergefreiter Habersack for the Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords), awarded for meritious service during on April 20, 1944, while serving with the 2. Kompanie/ Panzerkorps-Nachrichten-Abteilung 400 of the II. SS-Panzerkorps. Document was signed by SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Paul Hausser. Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original “Heldentod Ehrenurkunde” / “Gedenkblatt” (“Hero’s Death honor document”), which given to family member’s of a soldier who was Killed in Action. This document is honored to Unteroffizier Heinrich Griguszis, who served with the 1. Kompanie/ Panzerjäger-Abteilung 2 of the 12. Panzer-Division. Condition as seen. A4 size.
Original “Heldentod Ehrenurkunde” / “Gedenkblatt” (“Hero’s Death honor document”), which given to family member’s of a soldier who was Killed in Action. This document is honored to Gefreiter Friedhelm Brandt, who served with the 1. Kompanie/ Pionier-Bataillon 651 of the 15. Infanterie-Division. Condition as seen. A4 size.
Original award document of Leutnant Alfred Menzinger, who served with the 2. Kompanie/ Infanterie-Regiment 130 of the 45. Infanterie-Division, for the Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse (Iron Cross 1st Class) for his service on July 2, 1942, which was signed by Generalmajor Fritz Kühlwein (DKIG). Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original Award document for the Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen (General Assault Badge) for Gefreiter Frescher, serving with the 1. Kompanie/ Aufklärungs-Abteilung 100 of the 100. Jäger-Division! Signed by Major Gustav Grunhagen (DKIG). Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original award document for the Kampfabzeichen der Flakartillerie for Obergefreiter Gerhard Zacnik who served with the 5. Batterie/ Flak-Abteilung 114 on June 30, 1942 awarded during fighting in Africa! Signed by Generalmajor Heinrich Burchard (RK, Comitted suicide in April 45!). Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original award document of Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei Rudolf May, who served with the 1. Kompanie/ Polizei-Freiwilligen-Regiment 5 "Kroatien", for the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class) for his service on December 15, 1944, which was signed by General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy (RK). Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original award document of Fallschirm-Oberfeuerwerker Prütz for the Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge), who served with the Stabskompanie/ Fallschirmjäger-Regiment zbV. He earned the Erdkampfabeichen on December 1, 1944. Signed by Major Gerhard Schacht who earned the Ritterkreuz for Eben-Emael ! Condition as seen.
Original Award document of Unteroffizier Schenk, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his wound sustained on August 15, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, while serving with the Stab/ Infanterie-Regiment 673 of the 376. Infanterie-Division. This division was destroyed in Stalingrad! Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original Kriegsabzeichen für die Marineartillerie award document for Marine-Artillerist Hemmer, who earned the badge on 12. July 1942 while serving with Marineflakabteilung 803 (mot). Condition as seen.
Original Certificate of Honorary Service for a Luftwaffenhelfer for his service from 23.7.43 until 14.9.44 with the 8. Batterie/ Flak-Abteilung 684 (o). Condition as seen.
Original Award document of Stabsgefreiter Hermann, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber (Wound Badge in Silver) for wound sustained in February 2, 1945 while serving with the 1. Kompanie/ Grenadier-Regiment 469 of the 269. Infanterie-Division. Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original TOP set of a Luftschutz-Polizei member who was wounded during the Bombing of Essen on March 5, 1943 and was awarded the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz! He later was also decorated with the Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern. His Luftschutz-Dienstbuch is complete with photo (rare to see!). Set includes his Luftschutz-Dienstbuch, Wehrpass, several photographs, award document for the VWA & Ehrenkreuz, extra paper.
From Wikipedia:
"March 5/6: 442 aircraft in the first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr on the night that marked RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of the war. Fourteen aircraft (4 Lancasters, 4 Wellingtons, 3 Halifaxes, 3 Stirlings) were lost: 3.2 per cent of the force. A further 56 aircraft turned back early. Three of these were Oboe-equipped Mosquito marker aircraft leaving five to mark the target. Marking was carried out 'blind', avoiding the effects of the industrial haze that usually concealed Essen. The Main Force bombed in 3 waves. Two thirds of the bomb tonnage was incendiary, the rest high-explosive. One third of the high-explosive bombs were fused for long delay. The attack lasted for 40 minutes. Reconnaissance photographs showed 160 acres (0.65 km2) of destruction with buildings within the Krupp works hit by bombs.""On 5 March 1943 Essen was subjected to one of the heaviest air-raids of the war. 461 people were killed, 1,593 injured and a further 50,000 residents of Essen were made homeless."
Original Croation Zvonimir Medal Proposal for a soldier of the Infanterie-Regiment 717 of the 117. Jäger-Division, while serving under Kampfgruppe Borowski (anti partisan) for actions in Serbia? Think to read : Vilina Vodica? Signed by Generalmajor Heinrich Borowski! Condition as seen.
Original (2x) Award documents of Gefreiter Hein, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his first wound sustained on October 3, 1941 while serving with the 1. Kompanie/ Pionier-Bataillon 158 of the 58. Infanterie-Division and the Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold (Wound Badge in Gold) for his 4 (!) wounds sustained in October 1941, April & August 1942 & June 6, 1944 while serving with the Stab/ Brück-Staffel 936. Condition as seen.
Original award document set of Fallschirmjäger (Paratrooper) Doctor Oberarzt Dr. Jentsch. Interesting Westfront 1944-45 set! The Erdkampfabzeichen was most likely awarded for actions during the Battle for the Bulge - Ardennes! He served with the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 14 & 15 of the 5. Fallschirm-Division.
The set contains:
Award document for the Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge) on January 18, 1945. Beautiful award document variant!
Award document for the Fallschirmschützenabzeichen (Paratrooper Badge) for completing his jump training on March 11, 1942.
Award document for the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his first wound suffered on February 11, 1945.
Original Award document of Gefreiter Bruns, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his wound sustained on September 13, 1941 while serving with the 2. Kompanie/ Aufklärungs-Abteilung 156 of the 56. Infanterie-Division. Signed by Generalstabsarzt Franz Luerßen! Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original award document set for Hauptfeldwebel Harry Gädeke who served with various interesting units during the war. During his service, he earned the:
Verdienst-Auszeichnung für Angehörige der Ostvölker 2. Klasse in Silber on January 10, 1945 while serving with the Freiwilligen-Russ-Stamm-Regiment 4 of the Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division. Document was signed by Generalmajor Karl Ullmer.
Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42, awarded while with the 12. (Ost) Kompanie/ Grenadier-Regiment 757 of the 338. Infanterie-Division. Document was signed by Oberst Leopold von Sierakowski.
Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern, awarded while serving with the 2. Batterie/ schwere Artillerie-Abteilung 846.
Original Award Document & Wehrpass set of Gefreiter Wilhelm Ottermann, who served with the 7. Kompanie/ Infanterie-Regiment 65 of the 22. Infanterie-Division. He was Killed in Action! During his service, he earned the Krimschild and Winterschlacht im Osten 194/42. The set includes the:
Original Award document of Gefreiter Studeny, who served with Feldzeug-Kraftwagen-Kolonne 7,for the Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords) for his service on December 22, 1941. Signed by Generalmajor Eduard Wagner. Document was folded in the past. Condition as seen.
Eduard Wanger became a conspirator against Hitler. When Claus von Stauffenberg sought approval for an assassination attempt on 15 July 1944, Wagner was cited as being definite that the assassination of Hitler should be attempted only if Heinrich Himmler was also present. On 20 July, Wagner arranged the airplane that flew Stauffenberg from Rastenburg back to Berlin after the bomb that was believed to have killed Hitler had exploded. After the failure of the coup attempt, Wagner feared that his arrest by the Gestapo was imminent and that he might be forced to implicate other plotters. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at noon on 23 July 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)
Original award document set of Gefreiter Schneider, who served with the Stabskompanie/ Grenadier-Regiment 240 of the 106. Infanterie-Division. During his service, he earned the:
Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber (Infantry Assault Badge in Silver) on August 20, 1943, for 3 separate infantry assault days during his service! Signed by an unknown officer.
Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his wound suffered on August 2, 1943. Signed by an unknown officer.
Original Award document of Unteroffizier Zimmermann for the Deutsche-Schutzwall Ehrenzeichen (Westwall Medal) which was awarded in Kassel on March 20, 1940. Bears a feldpoststamp of Landesschützen-Ersatz-Bataillon 12. Condition as seen.
Original award document set of Gefreiter Bodmann, who served with the 11. Kompanie/ Infanterie-Regiment 74 and the 1. Kompanie/ Schützen-Regiment 112. During his service, he earned the:
Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber (Infantry Assault Badge in Silver) on July 6, 1940, during the Westfeldzug, for 3 separate infantry assault days during his service!
This is a stunning & seldom award document variant! Signed by Gustav Schmidt (RK+EL, Suicide to avoid capture!).
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class) for his service on June 25, 1940, awarded on "Am Tage des Waffenstillstandes mit Frankreich", which was signed by Otto von Knobelsdorff(RK+EL+SW!).
Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his first wound suffered on June 26, 1941. Signed by an unknown doctor.
Two very interesting signatures of Gustav Schmidt & Otto von Knobelsdorff plus a stunning & seldom award document variant for the ISA!
Original Award document of Gefreiter Hermann, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber (Wound Badge in Silver) for three wounds sustained in July 1942, November & December 1943 while serving with the 11. Kompanie/ Grenadier-Regiment 542 of the 387. Infanterie-Division. Condition as seen.
One of the best sets I have ever been able to sell, two original Award documents of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Theodor Wisch. Ultra rare and a real honor to have and sell!
Sturmabzeichen in Bronze (Infantry Assault Badge in Bronze) on February 2, 1943 for 3 separate infantry assault days during his service, signed by Josef "Sepp" Dietrich.
Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 (Winter War Medal)for his service during the harsh winter of 1942/42 on September 4, 1942, signed by Josef "Sepp" Dietrich.
Original award documents of Musketier Emkem, who served with the 7. Kompanie/ Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 77 of the 2. Reserve-Garde-Division, for the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class) and the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) earned during World War 1. Condition as seen.
His wounds were suffered at (source: click above on 2. Reserve-Garde-Division) :
1.8.15 -> 24.07.1915 - 24.09.1915: Stellungskämpfe in Flandern und Artois
Award document of Maler und Austreicher Schmidt, who earned the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) for his wound suffered during World War 1 but awarded on January 5, 1937. Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Original Award document of Oberleutnant Waldemar Zabel who served with the schwere Artillerie-Abteilung 679 and Batterie (E) 695. He didn't survive the war and died of his wounds suffered on February 18, 1945, at that time he was Batteriechef of Batterie 686 on the Westfront! During the war, he earned both the:
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class) for his service on November 11, 1943, which was signed byGeorg Lindemann (RK+EL).
Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords) for his service on April 13, 1942, which was signed byGeorg Lindemann (RK+EL).
Extra document covering his wartime service and data.
Original Award document of Oberleutnant Erich Krüger who served with the 10. Kompanie/ Luftwaffe-Infanterie-Regiment Luftgau Moskau and Kommando Flughafenbereich Lübeck-Blankensee earning both the:
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class) for his service on August 24, 1942, which was signed by General der FliegerVeit Fischer (RK=KVK).
Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords) for his service on April 20, 1941. Signed by General der Flieger Ludwig Wolff.
3x Documents of SA-Truppführer (early Sportdocuments) and later Unteroffizier Behrens of Infanterie-Regiment 257 of 83. Infanterie-Division. Two are early sport documents for the Sportabzeichen and the later is for a wound he suffered in 1940 (likely for the Western front) for the awarding of the Wound Badge. Documents were folded in the past. Good condition.
Small set of Obergefreiter Rolf Eckhoff which consists of a Certificate for the SA-Sportabzeichen (with nice ID photo in RAD uniform) and two documents related to his death. He was Killed in Action in 1942 while serving with Infanterie-Regiment 65 of the 22. (LL) Infanterie-Division. I added his death card from the archives as illustration (is not part of the group!).