A Black Grade Wound Badge Document To The Infamous 707Th Infantry Division

Name: A Black Grade Wound Badge Document To The Infamous 707Th Infantry Division
Brand: eMedals
SKU: G30400
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Description

An award certificate, measuring 140x200mm, near extremely fine condition with several creases.

The recipient is Lance Corporal Peter Buschbach of Sapper Company 707 for being wounded on April 30, 1944. The document is dated to Oppeln (modern day Opole in southern Poland) on June 6, 1944 and signed in black ink by an Oberfeldarzt and Chief Medical Doctor, the signature is indecipherable.

Footnote: Sapper Company 707 was part of the infamous 707th Infantry Division. It fought partisans in central Russia and was destroyed during the Russian summer offensive of 1944. The division is implicated in war crimes against Belorussian civilians and Jews, being named the Wehrmacht unit that had the biggest part in the Holocaust.