The soldiers -- Staff Sgt. Markus Geist, 28, and Master Sgts. Jan Berges, 29, Alexander Dietzen, 33, and Henry Lukacz 28 -- were half a kilometer (mile) from a German ambulance struck by a suicide ...

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 ...

A German conservative MP said Thursday the Iron Cross should be reintroduced as a military honour, but the Defence Ministry swiftly slapped down the call.

The Iron Cross was established originally as a Prussian military honour by King Frederick Wilhelm III in 1813. The medal was later awarded as a top honour to German servicemen during both world wars.

The Iron Cross, which had fallen out of favor in 1918, was revived by the Nazis in 1939, albeit with a Nazi swastika embossed in the center of the medal's original simple black-and-silver design.

The primary claim, in this regard, was that the cross displayed was not a Nazi symbol but was, instead, the Iron Cross used by the modern German army. This is not the case.

Four German soldiers are decorated with the country's new medal for bravery, the first to be awarded since World War II. BBC News Updated every minute of every day. ... The Iron Cross was established ...

A family wants to return an Iron Cross a German sailor handed to a baby exactly 100 years ago. News. Jez Hemming and Luke Traynor. 22:03, 11 Aug 2015 Updated 09:21, 12 Aug 2015.

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.