HITLER’S IRON CROSS

Evening Star, Issue 22630, 23 April 1937, Page 9

HITLER’S IRON CROSS

PRAISE FOR WAR BRAVERY LONDON, April 14. A document showing hew Lancecorporal Adolf Hitler won the Iron Cross is a prize exhibit m an exhibition of German army archives. The recommendation for its award was made by the commanding officer. Colonel von Godin, of the 16th ,Bavarian Infantry, and is dated July 31, 1918. , . It reads: “ Since the regiment s departure for the front, Lance-corporal Hitler has been with it, and has behaved excellently in all engagements in which he took part, both in trench and open warfare He was exemplary in coolness and pluck as a runner, and always ready to volunteer to convey messages to the most difficult situations under the greatest to life after the severing of all communications in difficult engagements. “ It was due to his indefatigable and self-sacrificing activities that important messages got through, despite all obstacles. _ t “Lance-corporal Hitler received the Iron Cross, second class, for bravery in the battle of Wytschaeth on December 2, 1914. I consider that he is fully worthy of the Iron Cross, first class.”