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9 unusual facts about Iron Cross


Action of 16 January 1916

Upon arrival, Captain Dohna-Schlodien received an Iron Cross second class.

Adam Forster

After two years of study he was drafted to serve in the Franco-Prussian War, became an officer in the Prussian Guard, and was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class.

Adolf von Brauchitsch

For his service in the war he was awarded with a total of 16 medals, including the Iron Cross.

Ernst König

He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Gold Cross Medal Recipients

The Iron Cross was awarded in the past, but only after declaration of a general and formal state of war, but not for combat operations in times of peace (such as "police actions" abroad or actions against internal disturbances).

Heavy metal fashion

As with the bikers, there is a fascination with Germanic imagery, such as the Iron Cross.

Karl Wanka

He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Orders, decorations, and medals of Burma

This is the highest military award in Myanmar and it is equivalent to British Victoria Cross and German Knight Cross of the Iron Cross.

Sven Hassel

Eventually he reached the rank of lieutenant and received an Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.


Alfred Schneidereit

In November 1943 Schneidereit's Division was returned to the Eastern Front for the Battle of Kursk where he was wounded twice more and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class and the Knight's Cross from Adolf Hitler.

Deutsches Turn- und Sportfest 1938

This highly nationalistic sports event was officially commemorating the 125th anniversary of the historical German Wars of Liberation against Napoleon and the first award of the Iron Cross in the city of Breslau itself in 1813.

Die Deutsche Wochenschau

Among the many notable scenes preserved by the newsreel are the Nazi point of view during the Battle of Normandy, the footage of Hitler and Mussolini right after the 20 July plot, and the last footage (No. 755) of Hitler awarding the Iron Cross to Hitler Youth volunteers in the garden of the Reich Chancellery shortly before the Battle of Berlin.

Erwin Franz Roestel

Prior to joining the SS he was a Hauptmann (Captain) in the Heer (German Army), being awarded the Iron Cross I & II class, the Eastern Front Medal for service on the Eastern Front during the first Russian winter of the war 1941/42, and the German Cross as the commander of a Sturmgeschütz (Assault Gun StuG) Battalion.

Gerardus Mooyman

In the battle at Lake Ladoga he destroyed 13 tanks, for this action he was the first non-German to be awarded the Knight's Cross.

Halim Malkoč

Halim Malkoč (12 August 1917 – 8 February 1947) was a Bosnian Muslim Imam and SS Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS division Handschar, was the first Muslim awarded the German Iron Cross during World War II.

Karl August Nerger

In addition to these highest awards of the major states, he also received the 1914 Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, the Knight's Cross with Swords of Prussia's Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, the Military Merit Cross 1st and 2nd Class of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Friedrich August Cross 1st and 2nd Class of Oldenburg, and the Hanseatic Crosses of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck.

Skinhead

American Oi! began in the 1980s, with bands such as U.S. Chaos, The Press, Iron Cross, The Bruisers and Anti-Heros.


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Aaron Bank

He wrote two books, first, From OSS to Green Berets: the Birth of Special Forces, which describes his exploits in France and Indochina and his role in founding the Special Forces and then Knight's Cross, a fictionalized account of a completed Operation Iron Cross which was co-written with E. M. Nathanson.

Aurora Venturini

She translated and wrote critical essays on poets as Isidore Ducasse, Conde de Lautréamont, François Villon and Arthur Rimbaud; for the translations of the latter two authors she received the Iron Cross decoration granted by the French government.

British occupation of the Jordan Valley

This long-range gun was also reported firing from well disguised positions in the hills east of the Jordan River on British Empire camps and horse lines, with the benefit of reports from German Taube aircraft, with a black iron cross under each wing.

Bruce Cale

While in Los Angeles in 1974, he composed the piece Iron Cross for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Egon von Neindorff

Egon von Neindorff (born 12 September 1892, Koblenz; died 15 April 1944, Tarnopol) was a Major General awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves for his defense of the German garrison at Tarnopol.

Fuß

Hans Fuß (1920–1942), German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II

Gustav Dörr

He returned to duty at Althaus as a test pilot from November 1917 until February 1918, and was awarded an Iron Cross First Class on 22 December 1917.

Hugo Gutmann

Gutmann later lobbied for Hitler's award of the Iron Cross First Class (an award typically reserved for commissioned officers), and the decoration was presented on August 4, 1918, near Soissons, on recommendation from Gutmann.

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Erich Thomas: Iron Cross winner whose specialty was balloon busting.

Joachim Schubach

In July 1941 he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class at Demjansk during the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and the German Cross in Gold in September 1942 at Lake Ilmen.

Kurt Grasshoff

According to Udet’s biography, translated into English under the title Ace of the Iron Cross, on 4 June 1917: “I write to Grasshoff, an old friend from the days at Habsheim -- ‘I want to go to another front, I would like to come to you. I’m the last of Jasta 15, the last of those once left from Mülhausen to go to Champagne.”

Rossner

Erich Rossner, Unterscharführer, in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Wilhelm Fulda

Fulda was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his actions as a glider pilot during the attack on the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece.

Ziegler

Joachim Ziegler (1904-1945), SS-Brigadeführer and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves