Germany, Condor Legion. The Spanish Cross In Gold With Swords & Diamonds Award Document To Oberst Thoma Auction Archive The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Coordination Centre

The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Coordination Centre for Ethnic Germans) took care of the interests of ethnic Germans living outside of the Reich

on a broad ribbon attachment loop

likely issued to the luftwaffe in between 1942-45

working largely in secret

Germany, Condor Legion. The Spanish Cross In Gold With Swords & Diamonds Award Document To Oberst Thoma Auction Archive The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Coordination CentreThe document is named to Oberst (Colonel) Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, for recognition of his especially outstanding achievements as a volunteer in the Spanish Fight of Liberation. It is dated to Berlin on June 6, 1939 and signed in black ink by A. Hitler. Measuring 254mm (w) x 355mm (h), with minimal scuffing of the edges and light fraying of the bottom right corner, remaining extremely fine. The Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords & Diamonds was awarded