Iron cross given to foreigner

[xxx]

here romanian soldiers in WW 2

 

 

[Brian R]

Great picture! One can only imagine what ultimately came of these guys!!

[xxx]

Only Man Awarded Both Victoria Cross & Iron Cross

and have the french red cross decoration also, here a screenshot

 

 

[xxx]

not realy

 

 

[Alex K]

On 24/08/2024 at 00:02, xxx said:

Only Man Awarded Both Victoria Cross & Iron Cross

and have the french red cross decoration also, here a screenshot

 

 

 

Hi by pure coincidence,  a colourisation I

did a week ago of him in all his finery

 

Alex k

[xxx]

a spanish mother wearing the iron cross from her son fallen in russia in the blue division

"Aurora Borja, awarded the Iron Cross to her son Nemesio García, a member of the Blue Division, killed on the Soviet front. The woman, a mother above all – a peasant and wrapped in mourning – firmly holds the letters received from her son who died far from home. Fallen in Russia, he would be one more among those first volunteers who, of the total of almost 45,000 who arrived from Spain between the summer of 41 and 43, fought on the Soviet front, in a hard and implacable war whose reason for being, possibly, Aurora never fully understood."

 

https://cbamadrid.es/revistaminerva/articulo.php?id=19

[Brian R]

Very interesting. I’ve never seen this picture before. She looks absolutely devastated.