Citation Infanterie Sturmabzeichen 114. Jager Division – Italy 1944

Citatation for the Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber to Gefreiten August Grimstein awarded on 3 September 1944.

He was a member of the 11th Kompanie of Jager Regiment 741 of the 114. Jager Division.
Signed by an Oberst and Regimental Commander.
The Division was active in Italy; north of Cassino on the Gustav line, Rimini area, Ravenna.
It was involved in several war crimes.

Among the German army units in Italy designated as „notable offender“ at the Nuremberg Trial is the 114th Jäger-Division: Filetto (22 civilians shot, the reprisal was known as the„case Defregger“, after the responsible CO who became a Catholic bishop in Munich in the 60es), Onna in Abruzzi, Gubbio in Umbria (40 civilians shot as a reprisal after partisans attacked 2 officers and killed one), Sansepolcro in Toscana (numerous shootings of civilians during august 1944), Villa (Madonna) Dell’Albero near Ravenna on the 27 November 1944, 56 women, children, old persons killed.

Used condition, has been folded.

code: B24235