This included portraits of German space scientists like Max Valier ... and was awarded the War Merit Cross in 1943 by the ...

died in Berlin on the same day she was honored with the Grand Cross of Merit, Germany’s highest honor, her foundation announced. The cause of her death was not immediately clear. German Holocaus ...

May 17, 2010: The German Army has awarded fourteen ... they have not revived the higher awards (like the Pour le Merit or other Iron Cross medals above the First Class Iron Cross) that were given out ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented Germany's favorite astronaut, Alexander Gerst, with the Great Cross of Merit on Wednesday. Gerst, who had already received a lower honor ...

Only one other World War I veteran is believed to be living ... was a retired judge and had earned the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit. The German army's Military Research Institute, which studies ...