A letter, measuring 210x297mm, extremely condition with folding creases and four punched holes. It is dated to Oberleutensdorf (Horní Litvínov, part of Litvínov, modern day northwest Czech Republic) on November 5, 1941 and was sent by the board of the Sudetenländische
Treibstoffwerke AG fuel company to Director Berthold Ottens, informing him that he has been awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class without Swords for his accomplishments during the building of the company’s factory. The sender was instructed to convey the special appreciation
of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and board executive Director General Paul Pleiger. The signature is indecipherable.
Footnote: The Sudetenländische Treibstoffwerke company, producing synthetic diesel fuel, was part of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, in the 1940s the biggest industrial conglomerate of the Third Reich and instrumental in Germany’s war machine. It was state-run and overseen
by Göring. During the war, the member companies relied heavily on forced and prison labour.

