Germany, Heer. An Ek2 Document To Defender Of Normandy, Signed By Oak Leaves Recipient Oberst Pietzonka Auction Archive England on June 6

England on June 6

one clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain

and was later conscripted in 1944 to move from the SA into the Wehrmacht service to fight in the war

a cross pattee in silvered bronze

241st recipient of the Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross

Germany, Heer. An Ek2 Document To Defender Of Normandy, Signed By Oak Leaves Recipient Oberst Pietzonka Auction Archive England on June 6The document is named to Obergrenadier Alfons Kurlenda of the 5th Company of Festungs Stamm (Fortress Cadre unit) I on the 25th Army Corps. It is dated to Brest, Brittany, on September 17, 1944, one day prior to the surrender of the German forces occupying the city. Pietzonka signed it in blue ink. Measuring 140 (w) x 200 (h) mm, with light scuffing, a folding crease, and two punched holes, remains very fine. The document was never handed out to the