Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, B.h. Mayer Design Archive to civilians for "exceptionally meritorious

to civilians for "exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services

a 1936 badge

all three prongs on the reverse fully intact

Footnote: A special badge was instituted by Royal Decree 641 on May 21

Burials were also transferred from civil and cantonment cemeteries

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, B.h. Mayer Design Archive to civilians for "exceptionally meritorious(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed tombak, 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 a crimped hinged and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but