Award docuemnt for Iron Trefoil 4th Class with oakleves (for Gallantry in action), awarded to SS-Hauptsturmführer Schröder Hermann, in Zagreb, on April 4, 1944. Document measures 28.7cm x 37.1cm, signed in ink by Croatian Minister of Armed Forces Ustaša Colonel Ante Vokić on lower left, and on right bottom side by General Percevic. Folded, in very fine condition and rare to an Waffen-SS Officer.
Footnote: SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Schröder was awardedIron Trefoil for "exceptional brave conduct and successful leadership of his units during 1943, and during this period he twice liberated Tomislav-Grad from bandits hands". These events are without a doubt related to Operation cítění (it. Ziethen, a joint operation of the Wehrmacht , Ustashe and Chetniks against partisans in Dalmatia and south-western Bosnia and Herzegovina.

