The collection consists of: an Iron Cross 2nd Class award document to Horst Bitter (140x200mm, very fine); a Krimschild award document to Horst Bitter (137x201mm, very fine); a Wound Badge in Black award document to Horst Bitter (149x209mm, near very fine); a Hindenburg Cross award document to Franz Bitter (211x148mm, very fine); a vacation certificate to Franz Bitter (148x210mm, near very fine).
The Iron Cross 2nd Class document is named to Schütze (Soldier) Horst Bitter of the 11th Company of Infantry Regiment 122. It is dated to May 15, 1942 and signed in black ink by the Commander of the 50th Infantry Division, Major General Friedrich Schmidt (1892–1943), a recipient of the German Cross in Gold. The Krimschild document is named to Schütze Horst Bitter on the same unit as listed above. It is dated to August 28, 1942 and carries a facsimile by Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), a recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Wound Badge in Black document is named to Schütze Horst Bitter on the same unit as listed above for being wounded once on June 26, 1942. It is dated to Bromberg on August 8, 1942 and signed in blue ink by the Chief Medical Officer of the local field hospital, the name is illegible. The Hindenburg Cross document is named to engineer Franz Bitter (presumably Horst Bitter’s father). It is dated to Berlin on February 26, 1935. The vacation certificate was issued by the Reich Office for Metals in Berlin. It states that their employee, senior engineer Franz Bitter, born May 23, 1875, has been granted sick leave from June 29 to July 29, 1942.