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Award certificate for the Iron Cross 2nd class.
Issued on July 6, 1942.
Headquarters Company / Rifle Regiment 101
Ink signature of the commander of the 18th Panzer Division, Major General KARL BARON OF THÜNGEN (Knight's Cross April 6, 1943, German Cross in Gold October 18, 1941).
He was one of the resistance fighters from July 20, 1944.
In 1944 he was inspector of the military substitute system in Berlin. On July 20, 1944, the conspirators appointed him commander of military district III (Berlin) and successor to the arrested General Joachim von Kortzfleisch. He took over the command of the general command.
He was sentenced to death on October 5 and shot on October 24, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.
Very rare signature!
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