Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, With Award Documents Hold he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer

he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer

flanked by the letters M T for Maria Theresia

modelled on those of their respective armies

Thoma was promoted to Generalleutnant (lieutenant general) in August of 1942

second insignia with a two-piece construction

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, With Award Documents Hold he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with an oval crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire