Documents and Photos to Obergefreiter Heinz Gropengiesser SS Helmets Excellent and desirable

Excellent and desirable

Text is in in German and printed in a beautiful gothic script

commonly known as the Sudetenland Medal

who would submit the list of acceptable recipients to the Staatsminister und Chef der Präsidialkanzlei des Führers und Reichskanzlers

Documents and Photos to Obergefreiter Heinz Gropengiesser SS Helmets Excellent and desirableDocuments and Photos to Obergefreiter Heinz Gropengiesser Gropengiessen was a paratrooper who fought during Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury), the German airborne invasion of Crete. The grouping includes the following: 1) seven photos of Gropengiesser, three of which show him wearing the ribbon for the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Iron Cross 1st Class, and the Paratrooper Badge; 2) large, early award document for the Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen