"Ukrainian Military Officials and Equipment using the 'Balkenkreuz' or Iron Cross from the Imperial/Nazi Germany-Era is an extremely bad look and needs to be talked about more," the account tweeted.

The Iron Cross is a commonly used, famous German military medal. It’s not a hate symbol on its own. It was turned into a Nazi symbol when the regime superimposed a swastika in the center.

(Valda Kalnina/European Pressphoto Agency) The March 6 front-page article on the German military described the markings on the Bundeswehr tanks as "the Iron Cross" ["Germany uneasily ratchets up ...

on a ribbon in the colors of the German flag -- black, red and gold -- and decorated with double oak leaves. The military has had no medal for bravery since it stopped awarding the Iron Cross ...

July 9, 2009: The German army has awarded the first Iron Cross medals, for bravery in a combat zone, since 1945. From 1813 to 1945, nearly five million Iron Cross medals were awarded to German ...

The German government was yesterday forced to scrap plans to re-introduce the Iron Cross, after opponents said the military medal still carried the "burden" of association with Nazi atrocities.

Col. Klaus Finck, a German military attaché, pinned the medal on Wirick's chest. The medal is part of the order of the Iron Cross. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Snow, former director of the Army Strategy ...

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 ...

He was one of only 27 military personnel to receive the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross for his high number of kills. Nazi propaganda regularly celebrated him as a “war hero” in newsreels.