Common Combat Awards of the German Army 1939-1945

A video describing the common combat awards of the German Army 1939-1945, the place they occupied in contemporary German military culture, and their portrayal in modern English-language pop culture depictions of the German Army in World War II. The following references were used in part in researching this video: World War II German Battle Insignia by Gordon Williamson https://www.amazon.com/World-German-B... Combat Medals of the Third Reich by Christopher Ailsby https://www.amazon.com/Combat-Medals-... The Good Soldier by Alfred Novotny https://www.amazon.com/Good-Soldier-N... Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland: A Pictorial History by Helmuth Spaeter https://www.amazon.com/Panzerkorps-Gr... Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying. The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs https://www.amazon.ca/Soldaten-Fighti... “A foe, yet valorous” Tim Blangger, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), 8 Jun 2008 “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty”, Udo Volker Nowak, Alabama Journal, 2 Feb 1967 “Bid to Revive the Iron Cross awakens Germany's Angst”, Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times, 19 Mar 2008 “The 'good German' in war movies” by Kenneth George Godwin https://www.cageyfilms.com/2015/07/th... “Kriegsprache” by Thomas Houlihan https://www.amazon.ca/Kriegsprache-Th... The German Infantry Handbook 1939-1945 by Alex Buchner https://www.amazon.com/German-Infantr... “Island of Fire” by Jason D. Mark https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Ba... Thank you to Dan of the Hot Sauce Done Quick YouTube channel for his portrayal of Alfred Novotny.    / @hotsaucedonequick