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WW2 German Iron Cross 2nd Class award document to Army Gefreiter Nikolaus Hess, 3 Company Panzer regiment 31.  Awarded 9 March 1943.  It is signed in black ink by then Oberst Hans Källner, 208 Infantry Division.  Källner had received the Knight’s Cross 3 May 1942.  He was promoted to Generalmajor in August 1943, and on 1 June 1944, to Generalleutnant.  10 October 1944, he was awarded the Oak Leave to the Knight’s Cross, as commander of the 19 Panzer Division.  23 October 1944, he was awarded the swords to the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves.  He was killed at the front by Brünn, 18 April 1945.

Measures 200 x 140mm.  Center fold and a couple tiny edge tears. 

Though not indicated on the document, this was a posthumous award.

The WW2 German Russian Front Medal document was awarded to Gefreiter Nikolaus Hess, 15 August 1942.  He was with 3 Company Panzer Regiment 31. The ink stamp is from 1 Abteilung Panzer Regiment 31, and it is signed by a major who was the commander.  Could be Freiherr von Bodenhausen, who was a Ritterkreuzträger. He committed suicide at the Kurland Pocket, 9 May 1945.

Measures 200 x 140mm.   It has a center fold and the corner tips are gone. 

At the beginning of the Russian summer offensive in 1942 , the regiment of 26 Panzer II , 55 Panzer III was short , 13 Panzer IV briefly and 9 command tanks.

Gefreiter Hess is listed as missing in action, Russia, 1 December 1942.

Nice pair of documents to a tank combatant!

$135

WW2 German Black Wound Badge document.  Awarded to Army Obergefreiter Friedrich Propson, 8 schwere Company Grenadier Regiment 485 (263 Infantry Division), for one wound received on 15 July 1944.  At the time they would have been fighting in the area of Welkije Luki under 16 Armee Heeses Gruppe Nord.  The document was awarded 3 March 1945, by a doctor at Reserve Hospital II in Meiningen, Germany.

As you can see, the document edges were trimmed a bit to fit a frame.  Also has a center fold.

$20

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WW2 German Infantry Assault Badge in Silver with the document!

The document was awarded to Army Oberleutnant Erhard Greif, 3 Company Feld Ersatz Bataillon 121 (121 Infantry Division).  It was awarded 30 May 1944, and signed by the commander of Feld Ers. Batl. 121, (who I think is) Major Henning Eppendorff.  Eppendorff was a German Cross in Gold recipient, 2 October 1943.

The cocument has tiny nips to several edge spots.  It has been folded, looks to have been in a frame.  The back has old tape in places.

Oberleutnant Greif is listed in the German Graves Office as having been killed 20 February 1945, Kurland.  The 121 I.D. operated in the northern sector of the East Front from June 1941 to October 1944, at which time they were engaged in the Kurland Pocket.

As you can see, the Infantry Assault Badge in Silver is is hollow back.  It is not maker marked. The reverse has a thin round pin and catch.  There is a little bit of the nice silver finish remaining on the left edge and bottom.

Awesome set to a combatant officer!

$165  SOLD