This included portraits of German space scientists like Max Valier ... and was awarded the War Merit Cross in 1943 by the ...

died in Berlin on the same day she was honored with the Grand Cross of Merit, Germany’s highest honor, her foundation announced. The cause of her death was not immediately clear. German Holocaus ...

May 17, 2010: The German Army has awarded fourteen ... they have not revived the higher awards (like the Pour le Merit or other Iron Cross medals above the First Class Iron Cross) that were given out ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented Germany's favorite astronaut, Alexander Gerst, with the Great Cross of Merit on Wednesday. Gerst, who had already received a lower honor ...

Her father, a decorated war veteran who fought in World War I, was killed by the Nazis in 1942. Friedländer was captured in April 1944 and arrived at Theresienstadt, in what is now the Czech ...