Documents and Photo to Paratrooper Feldwebel (Sergeant) Friedhelm Judt

Documents and Photo to Paratrooper Feldwebel (Sergeant) Friedhelm JudtDocuments and Photo to Paratrooper Feldwebel (Sergeant) Friedhelm Judt The grouping includes the following: 1) Award document for the Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe (Anti Aircraft Badge of the Air Force) issued on 23 March 1943 and signed by the Commander of the 16. Flakdivision (16th Anti Aircraft Division), Generalmajor Rudolf Eibenstein, a German Cross in Gold recipient. The document reveals that Judt was assigned to the 2. leichte Flakabteilung

Documents and Photo to Paratrooper Feldwebel (Sergeant) Friedhelm Judt-The grouping includes the following:

1) Award document for the Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe (Anti-Aircraft Badge of the Air Force) issued on 23 March 1943 and signed by the Commander of the 16. Flakdivision (16th Anti-Aircraft Division), Generalmajor Rudolf Eibenstein, a German Cross in Gold recipient. The document reveals that Judt was assigned to the 2./leichte Flakabteilung 765 (2nd Battery of Light Anti-Aircraft Battalion 765), which was stationed in Boulogne, France;

2) Award document for the Fallschirmschützenabzeichen (Paratrooper Badge) issued in Berlin on 26 May 1943. Document has a facsimile signature of Generaloberst Bruno Loerzer (Pour le Mérite and Knight's Cross recipient);

3) Award document for the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (Wound Badge in Black) issued in Alzev and dated 20 January 1944. This document reveals that Judt was a member of the 14./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 7(14" Company of Paratrooper Regiment 7), which was part of the 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division (2nd Paratrooper Division). Judt was wounded on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, when his unit was fighting in Russia. The document is signed by the Chefarzt (Chief Medical Doctor) of the Reserve Hospital in Alzey;

4) Ornate award document for the Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe (Ground Combat Badge of the Air Force) dated 29 June 1944. The document reveals Judt was still assigned to Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 7 of the 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division. The document is signed by the renowned Generaleutnant Bernhard Ramcke, who at that time, commanded the 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division. Ramcke was a recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. A lot of information concerning Ramcke, who was captured in Brest, France, in September 1944, can be found on the internet. This is an exceptional document with a strong and very clear Ramcke signature.

5) award document dated 8 January 1945 for the I. Stufe der Nahkampfspange (1st Grade of the Close Combat Clasp), which was awarded for participating in 15 days of close combat. This document reveals that Judt was not in Brest at the time of the surrender of the 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division; thus, sometime after June 1944, Judt was reassigned to the 2./Falschirm-Ersatz-und-Ausbildungs-Regiment "Hermann Göring," which was based in Utrecht, Holland. Judt's close combat days were most likely engagements he participated in with Fallschirmjager-Regiment 7. The document is signed by a Major, who was the regimental commander of the 2./Fallschirm-Ersatz-und-Ausbildungs-Regiment "Hermann Göring";

6) small, but clear, photo of Judt on leave, showing him with two females (a girlfriend and a sister?). The photo shows Judt wearing all the badges for which he received the above-mentioned award documents. The reverse is marked Tangerhütte 1945. Tangerhütte, Germany, is most likely Judt's hometown.