Quite some people received their awards without any documents during the last days of the war, some even when the war was already ended. I know, for example, a Dutch Ostuf. who received the German cross in gold from Wagner, but never received any document. Some people doubt his story, but I don't. He told me that they wrote it in his Soldbuch, as is most probably the case with the man you have talked to. It is possible that his Soldbuch is still somewhere in the archives and that it will be discovered in the future.
Did you ask him why he moved to Argentina after the war?
Cees
