On June 25, 2023, a video of what appears to be a member of the Ukrainian military driving a personal car adorned with a black cross outlined with white bars sparked intense debate over Nazi ...

The military ... and the modern-day German Army, the Bundeswehr. Because it was the most prominent on the German tanks of the Second World War people tend to associate the Iron Cross with those ...

A German conservative MP said Thursday the Iron Cross should be reintroduced as a military honour ... 60 years in the past and that Germany’s modern armed forces, the Bundeswehr, had “over ...

From 1813 to 1945, nearly five million Iron Cross medals were awarded to German military personnel (and a few civilians who were performing military functions.) The Iron Cross medal, for bravery in ...

For the 130 years leading up to 1945, exceptional courage in German military service was honored with the Iron Cross. The medal was abolished at the end of World War II, during which it was ...

The bankrupt Reich’s receivers did their utmost to absolve the German people and the German military command ... on his Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. The voice continued : “Since ...

Beti’s mum Laura Jones later found her daughter with the unexpected gift, and found it was an Iron Cross - one of the highest honours in the German Army awarded for bravery. Now, the baby’s 42 ...

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500 by Peter H Wilson, Allen Lane, £40, 913 pages Robert Gerwarth is professor of modern history at University College ...

Bernhard Weiss, a little-known Jewish war hero and recipient of the Iron Cross First Class ... Weiss, who eventually became German law enforcement’s highest-ranking Jew ever, remains largely ...