Germany, Luftwaffe. A Formal Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Award Document to Hauptmann Heinrich Wittmer, Kampfgeschwader 55 Republic of Footnote: The Canadian Army Pay

Footnote: The Canadian Army Pay Corps (Overseas) was organized on August 6

An Order of the White Rose (Gold and white enamels

Emanating from the throat is an integral loop for the accommodation of a dagger hanger

85 mm x 47

The mindset of the city's defenders was further altered by the different attitude the local population had toward them as they fought on home soil for the first time

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Formal Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Award Document to Hauptmann Heinrich Wittmer, Kampfgeschwader 55 Republic of Footnote: The Canadian Army Pay(Urkunde zum Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). A rare and well preserved formal Knights Cross of the Iron Cross award document, constructed of a heavy card stock binder with a red saffian (goatskin) leather exterior liner, the cover bearing a gilded and embossed German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, opening to reveal covers lined with off white parchment and situated within gilt borders, the lower edge of the back cover bearing