Not sure if the EK and document belong together because of the PKZ marked ring, but the document is great! It's definitely Poland related as 2. PD fought through central Poland and suffered heavy casualties. It has the signature of Rudolf Veiel who was later dismissed by Hitler for complicity in the July 20, 1944 bomb plot. The division was subordinate/associated with Wehrkreis XVII, hence the Vienna award location. Much of the division was Austrian and it was stationed in Vienna at the end of the campaign where it licked its wounds. It regrouped and later moved to the Eifel in anticipation of the campaign in the West.
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