Of all those, the Iron Cross 2nd Class is by far and away the most common. It was given to recognize battlefield performance and some four-and-a-half million were awarded during the war.

In the "cool modifications" category, this week we're highlighting a creative approach to a Fold of the Week classic — the Iron Cross fold. You'll be amazed to see what two little flaps can do ...

Designed for and created by the mother/daughter team at Good Postage and produced by Boingo Graphics, this mailer/shipper combo looks like a beautiful envelope, but it's actually an Iron Cross ...

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.

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 ...

Herbert Sulzbach was a German Jew who served in the German Army during WW1 and was awarded the Iron Cross Second and First Class. During the 1930s he fled Nazi persecution and settled in England.

Germany has launched an anguished and widening debate over proposals to reintroduce the Iron Cross – virtually in its original form – as a military decoration that could be awarded throughout ...

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 ...