Germany is to reintroduce the Iron Cross for bravery ... dated back to 1813 when Prussia was at war with Napoleon. It was awarded to troops in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871-71, ...

By way of background, the Iron Cross award was first introduced in 1813 in Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars. It was brought back during World War I and, with the addition of a swastika on the ...

Surprisingly, Christopher Clark’s “Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947” is one of the first general histories of the country written for an English-speaking audience.

For those unfamiliar with the symbol, we're talking about something that first came up in the Kingdom of Prussia in Europe in the late 1800s. It presented itself as a stylized black cross with a ...