The decoration, awarded for the first time yesterday, follows an anguished debate over demands that the old Iron Cross be re-introduced. The German left remains suspicious of the new medal.

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A leader of German military reservists has called for the reintroduction of the Iron Cross, a centuries-old soldier's honor marred by the Nazis. But some say the medal is too burdened by its own past.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented German soldiers with medals for bravery that resemble the old iron cross, marking the first time since World War II that the nation has bestowed such a ...

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The Iron Cross has spread well beyond Germany, and in the 1960s, outlaw motorcycle gangs had co-opted the symbol, while it also spread to the heavy metal subcultures of the 1970s and early 1980s.

The family do not know why Brixius had been awarded the Iron Cross but, because it was given in September 1939, it was assumed it was for action over Poland or the Sudetenland.

On the run World War One German POW who gave his Iron Cross to baby before handing himself in to the British authorities became a top official in the Third Reich ...

Adolf Hitler presents Hanna Reitsch the Iron Cross Second Class for her service in the development of aircraft armament instruments. Corbis via Getty Images When German pilot Hanna Reitsch was ...