the Iron Cross used by the modern German army. This is not the case. That army's present cross, while equidistant and outlined by white marks, contains flared edges: Others suggested the cross was ...

Beck, who was born in 1945, said German should reclaim the positive aspects of the Iron Cross now that the Second World War was more than 60 years in the past and that Germany’s modern armed ...

I'm not entirely sure where the Iron Cross fits. For those unfamiliar ... including by the Nazi regime's Wehrmacht and the modern-day German Army, the Bundeswehr. Because it was the most prominent ...

To their commander went the last German decoration of World War II: diamonds for the oak leaves (with swords) on his Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. The voice continued : “Since midnight all ...

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 ...

May 17, 2010: The German Army has awarded fourteen American soldiers the revived Iron Cross medal, for risking their lives, on April 2nd, to save eleven German soldiers who had come under heavy fire ...

Dug out of attics and curio shops and freshly minted by the thousands, the German Iron Cross has become the newest surfer’s emblem and high school fad. Nobody, except parents, seems upset by the ...

(Valda Kalnina/European Pressphoto Agency) The March 6 front-page article on the German military described the markings on the Bundeswehr tanks as "the Iron Cross" ["Germany uneasily ratchets up ...

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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.