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Germany, Heer. A 1944 Assault Badge & Wound Badge Award Group to Grenadier Regiment 436

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Germany, Heer. A 1944 Assault Badge & Wound Badge Award Group to Grenadier Regiment 436

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Germany, Heer. A 1944 Assault Badge & Wound Badge Award Group to Grenadier Regiment 436

An Infantry Assault Badge certificate (148x210mm, near extremely fine) to Obergefreiter (Senior Lance Corporal) Hans Zentes of the 8th Company of Grenadier Regiment 436. It is dated to October 17, 1944 and signed in blue ink by a Colonel and Regiment Commander, his name could be Drexel.

A Wound Badge in Black certificate (139x200mm, extremely fine) to Obergefreiter Zentes (8th Grenadier Regiment 436) for being wounded once on September 14, 1944. The document is dated to Beuthen (modern day Bytom, southern Poland) on October 7, 1944 and signed in black ink by an Oberstabsarzt (Senior Staff Doctor) and Head Physician, the name is indecipherable.

A Feldpost letter (210x148mm, extremely fine) with envelope (161x116mm, very fine). The letter is dated to October 19, 1944 and was sent to Zentes’s father. It contained the Infantry Assault Badge in Silver. The letter comes with congratulations from Zentes’s Company and the request to forward it to him. It is signed in blue crayon by a Captain and Company Leader, the name is indecipherable.

An application for the Infantry Assault Badge (210x297mm, extremely fine). It lists the dates and types of battles Zentes was in to be eligible for the decoration, and is dated to October 1, 1944. It carries two signatures, one in pencil by Colonel and Regiment Commander Drexel, and one in blue crayon by Zentes’s Captain and Company Leader whose name is indecipherable.

A Schwerkriegsbeschädigtenausweis (seriously war-disabled ID), 2nd degree, to Zentes. It is dated to Lindau on Lake Constance (southern Germany) on January 8, 1946. The card enables Zentes to get discounts at cultural events, and to get prefered processing at official offices.

A Labour Book (107x149mm, near mint). It is dated to January 5, 1939.

Footnote: HansZentes was born on September 6, 1921 in Düsseldorf (western Germany). He was a machine fitter apprentice, starting in April 1939, but didn’t finish the apprenticeship, as he was drafted in February 1941. During the time of being wounded and receiving his awards in September and October 1944, his unit was stationed in the vicinity of Riga (Latvia). After the war, Zentes was a student at a commercial school in Calw (southwest Germany) from April to August 1948, which indicates that he spent time as a POW before. He then worked for a knitting company on a knitting machine from November 1948 to April 1949. His next assignment was for the Kraft Cheese Plant from June 1949 to October 1956. After that, Zentes worked as a travelling salesman for an advert printing company from November 1956 to 1957.