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Subject: New Iron Cross introduced
Nasty German Idiot     10/12/2008 2:53:34 PM
Berlin - Germany has re-introduced a military medal for bravery, more than 60 years after the last Iron Cross was awarded for valour in battle, according to a Defence Ministry spokesman Friday. The Cross of Honour for Bravery will be in the iron-cross shape, but will not have the old name.

The iron cross was introduced in 1813 by the kingdom of Prussia and was a common award in Nazi Germany till its 1945 defeat.

The only existing medals for German soldiers, sailors and flyers are given for exemplary conduct over fixed periods of service. Personnel do not have to go into danger to earn the four existing grades.

The fifth, higher award will be for "especial valour at risk of physical danger or death" during peacekeeping and other dangerous assignments, a defence spokesman said in Berlin.

Germany's president, Horst Koehler, has given his consent for the new bravery award.
 
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Nasty German Idiot       10/12/2008 2:54:49 PM

 
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smitty237    Good   10/12/2008 3:15:38 PM
I'm glad that Germany is finally trying to draw upon its military traditions to rebuild morale in its military.  I've heard a number of military aficionados in this country say that all the good Germans were killed in World War II, and the country is now composed mostly of pacifists and deviants.  Of course this criticism is unfair, but the peace of the Cold War and the absence of a credible regional military threat in Europe in the post-Cold War era has allowed the militaries of countries like Germany to atrophy.  Germany learned in the 1990's that it needed to have military forces capable of operating outside German soil at a moments notice, and as a result created the KSK, which rapidly achieved tier one status in the special ops community.  The German military needs to become lean, mean, and tough, and the best way to do that is to motivate the German soldier to adhere to Germany's long military traditions.  Germany may have lost both world wars, but few other armies in history could have accomplished what the German military did in those periods.  I guarantee every Frenchman, American, Brit, Canadian, and Russian that engaged the German Army in battle came away with a healthy respect and fear of the German soldier. 
 
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