Paratrooper Document Grouping to Feldwebel Erich Vietor-This grouping consists of the following:
1) Second-issue Soldbuch (Paybook and Personal ID) issued on 30 September 1942 by the 1. Flieger-Betriebs-Kompanie (1st Flight Operations Company) of Kampfgruppe 126 (Bomber Group 126, which operated Heinkel 111s), with which he served from 29 February 1940 to 9 January 1943. On 10 January 1943, this unit was renamed as the 119. Flieger-Betriebs-Kompanie (11th Flight Operations Company; Vietor served with this unit through 25 January 1944;
2) Preliminary document for the Fallschirmschützenabzeichen in Stoff (Paratrooper Badge in Cloth). Because the Luftwaffe was in dire need of frontline troops, Vietor was ordered to the Hauptuntersuchungsstelle of the Generalkommando des XI. Fliegerkorps (Central Examination Center of the XI Air Corps), arriving at this unit on 26 January 1944. Vietor was examined and determined to be fit to be a paratrooper. On 11 April 1944, he was assigned to the 3./Fallschirmschule I (3d Company of Paratrooper School II) in Wittstock. From 12 April to 2 May 1944, Vietor took part in the paratrooper training course there, and having passed the course, was permitted to wear the Paratrooper Badge in Cloth;
3) Fallschirmschützenschein (Paratrooper License). From 10 May 1944 to 21 February 1945, Vietor was assigned to two paratrooper artillery battalions. On 20 August 1944, Vietor received his oilcloth Fallschirmschützenschein from Fallschirm-Artillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung (Paratrooper Artillery Replacement Battalion) of the Fallschirm A.O.K. (Paratrooper Amy High Command). On 22 February 1945, Vietor was finally posted to a field unit, that is, the Headquarters Battery of Fallschirm-Artillerie-Regiment 11 (Paratrooper Artillery Regiment 11) of the 11. Fallschirmjäger-Division (11 Paratrooper Division). He was quickly reassigned to Headquarters Battery of Fallschirm-Artillerie-Regiment 10 (Paratrooper Artillery Regiment 10) of the 10. Fallschirmjäger-Division (10* Paratrooper Division) on 28 March 1945; this division fought in Austria and Moravia and surrendered to the Russians in May 1945. On 12 June 1945, Vietor was assigned to the 2a Company of the lInd Battalion of Regiment 27 (Schludelmann), whose postwar role is undetermined. An entry in Vitor's Soldbuch, shows that he received the Führergeschenk (Hitler's Gift Package for Soldiers' on Leave) on 21 November 1943. 4) Rare, late-war award document for the Fallschirmschützen-Abzeichen (Paratrooper Badge) dated 1 October 1944 issued by the Paratrooper Army High Command signed by Generalmajor Walter Barenthin (German Cross in Gold);
5) Postwar service record summary dated 30 May 1945 listing all of Vietor's wartime units. Since Vietor retained these documents after the war, he erased the swastikas from them.