Information about this kind of documents

[Scholtz]

I have often seen this kind of documents asociated with sunk submarines, signed by Friedeburg or by the Flottillenchef and always in 1943 or 1944. I want to ask you when the sailor (or his family better said) were eligible have this document or how many of them were made.

Best regards.

[hucks216]

It isn't just associated with sunk submarines but with any sailor killed in action including on surface ships although I don't think it will be possible to know just how many were awarded.

[Scholtz]

Thank you for your answer hucks. Is it know the criteria for the award or when was it instituted?

[hucks216]

I have no idea when it was instituted I'm afraid or how widely it was used within the KM but I have seen them issued for sailors killed on small craft such as U-Boats & Vorpostenboot and right the way up to Tirpitz. Criteria would be the sailor being killed in service.

[compressore]

Not only for sailors, but all members of the Kriegsmarine. I saw some for civil administration female workers killed during bomb raids.

Regards
christian